five-finger

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Examples

• “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.