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Definitions in simple English

five

(ordinal fifth) The number 5. We have five toes on each foot.

five

The number 5. plus three is five.

five

being one more than four the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one (= basketball team) a team that plays basketball a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

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Simple sentences

You must be here till five.
We bargained that we should go on a five-day week.
We have five English classes a week.
I'll wait another five minutes.
Give me five tokens, please.
This class is made up of thirty-five pupils.
He can go out on condition he comes home by five.
Four times five is twenty.
Do you have a table for five?
My father will be forty-five in May.
He has more than five dictionaries.
They closed the shop at five.
It will take five to ten years for the technology to be ready.
It's just five in the morning, but nevertheless it is light out.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Where is your twenty? I'll give you five bucks for it.
Please pick me up at the airport at five.
We have five days to go before the holidays.
My sister-in-law had four children in five years.
The audience applauded for a full five minutes.
The bill amounts to five thousand yen.
The school is located within five minutes' walk of the station.
Each speaker was allotted five minutes.
The meeting began at five in the afternoon.
We knocked at the door for five minutes, but in vain.
The population of your city is about five times as large as that of my town.
The school is only a five-minute walk.
The conference closed at five.
The meeting broke up at five.
Our team is five points ahead.
The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.
Our family consists of five members.

Movie subtitles

Just wait five years!
I've watched it five times and everytime my heart hurts.
The impoverished, petty, strife-torn kingdoms of Western Europe embarked on five centuries of uninterrupted expansion.
Roughly one in five English children died in the first year of life.
Thousands of wannabe mandarins would be locked in these cells, just three-and-a-half feet deep, about the same width, and only five-and-a-half feet high.
China had to pay an indemnity of 21 million silver dollars, cede the island of Hong Kong, and open five ports to British trade, including this one.
In five years, we will know for certain, from Kepler's results, how frequent Earth-like planets are.
I did it in five minutes in the dark.
The reason and natural force, five oceans, and everything was transformed.
Do you enjoy being beaten by po and the furious five Again, and again, and again, and again, and again, And again, and again?
Maybe there's more Than one way to defeat the furious five.
The furious five are old and played out.
The crocs are the new furious five.
That scroll says the crocs are the new furious five!
We averaged three, five or ten of these in order to reduce the noise and amplify the signal.
Look, kid, just give me five seconds and I swear to you, I will never criticize this movement again.
Five minutes for breakfast.
By the Chinese government five years ago.
I haven't seen him in five years.
I need a taxi in five minutes.
The attendant of Box Five will not laugh when you ask about the opera ghost!
Who occupies Box Five?
Five hundred silver coins.
Five years old?
I've been on the case five minutes and another one is gone.
Oh, we left them four or five days back.
Its tail comprises five prismatic joints.
It happened in the Donbass, during the Five-Year Plan. In 1930.
Five seconds. Ten.
Five!
Hey, guys, Frankie's crew's paying Cory five bucks to eat some larva, and he's gonna do it.
So, like, there's the rope-skipping area, which belongs to the grade five girls.
The grade five boys are in.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
In winter it gets dark at five.
With five million euros?
Would you mind talking to me as if I'm five years old?
Like a five-year-old, please.
Eight, seven, six, five, coming on behind.
It's been five years since I made love without the TV on.
I didn't spend five shillings on setting lotion and two hours in rollers only to spend the evening knitting with the nuns.

News and current affairs

That is a real enough danger to which policymakers must give serious thought as they reform the CAP on the basis of the following five pillars.
These five pillars involve drastic choices, but they will probably require less money from Europe's taxpayers, not more.
An estimated five million people were stranded or delayed.
The confederation I advocate would thus constitute an intermediate stage (lasting five or ten years), at the end of which Kosovo is likely to become fully independent.
According to a recent World Bank-supported survey of companies interested in carbon finance, only one in five respondents declared that they were interested in buying post-2012 emissions reductions.
It took 15 years for other countries to compete successfully with America's Silicon Valley in semi-conductors, but less than five years in Internet technology.
But like all his previous initiatives since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington almost five years ago now, the NME ran into trouble from the outset.
After five years of stagnation, the economy is finally on the move.
To help create this future, I am focusing my second term as Secretary-General on five global imperatives - five generational opportunities to shape the world of tomorrow by the decisions we make today.
The Republic of Korea, which is losing jobs for the first time in more than five years, has also spotted the green lining to grim economic times.
Around 12 million children under five years old died in 1990.
Five core ingredients are required.
Without compensatory measures - including pre-school education, ideally beginning at a very young age - unequal opportunities translate into unequal lifelong outcomes by the time children reach the age of five.
In fact, my formal residence is in New York City, but I am about to spend most of the next five months in Russia, training to be a cosmonaut in Star City, just outside Moscow.
In order to gain the breathing space necessary for the reform process to be effective, the Greek government could just announce a simple rescheduling: the due date of all existing public debt is extended by five years at an unchanged interest rate.
But how will Sarajevo look in five years?
The findings seem to indicate that the next five years will be a make-or-break period for the region's future development.
The resulting breakthroughs not only got Neil Armstrong to the moon in 1969, but also made it possible for Apple to introduce the first Mac in 1976 and IBM to debut the first PC five years later.
As for Lubanga, he is one of many in the Congo who has used civilians as pawns in a war that has cost more than five million lives in the past decade.
Five years after the world's first permanent criminal tribunal commenced operations, it has made its mark.
In the United States, one-eighth of all black males between the ages of 25 and 34 are in jail, and three out of five black American households with children are headed by a single mother.
Let me suggest five steps necessary to begin to bring this about.
He earned less from cotton last year than the year before, and much less than he earned five years ago.
This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children.
In Cameroon, where cotton is the main source of income for nearly five million people, record crops were posted last year and the year before.

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