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five

adjective as in having five of something

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“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.

Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.

These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.

At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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