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Fifth in sentence

516 examples of Fifth in a sentence

The fifth thing is that maybe, after 2,500 years, Plato is still having his way with us in his notion of perfect forms.
Everybody points and laughs, and they say, "He tried it a fifth time, and it still didn't work!
Maybe one slight difference: we can train rats at a fifth of the price of training the mining dog.
The fifth time, I got an answer.
But this is another, this is the Grand Canal, which was constructed in the first instance in the fifth century B.C. and was finally completed in the seventh century A.D. It went for 1,114 miles, linking Beijing with Hangzhou and Shanghai.
Now that was the advice that St. Benedict gave his rather startled followers in the fifth century.
And mostly I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.
I was asked to come to Tegucigalpa and talk again on January fourth and fifth.
In the fourth act, with our hubris, our overconfidence developing, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the fifth act, we plunged into a humiliating mess.
The third drops, the fourth, the fifth.
The second shock hurts just as much, and the third and the fourth and the fifth.
Nothing like this existed in China, where there was one monolithic state covering a fifth of humanity, and anyone with any ambition had to pass one standardized examination, which took three days and was very difficult and involved memorizing vast numbers of characters and very complex Confucian essay writing.
My clearest memory is standing in the empty hallway outside the fifth grade classrooms waiting for Vicky to come out of the bathroom, and I have a clipboard and a pen and a survey I've made up, asking about shampoo preferences, like I'm doing a study for science class or something.
Now, to put this in perspective, I can't remember the names of my teachers, I can't remember the names of any of the books I read that year, I pretty much can't remember anything from fifth grade, but I remember that Vicky told me she used White Rain shampoo.
AG: Okay,there's his fifth hypothesis.
These are all tacos eaten in Mexico City near a train station on July fifth to July sixth.
But I want to suggest that there's also a fifth one.
It seemed like my instincts in fifth grade were correct.
But yet, it's the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the United States.
Trevor Neilson: And also, Tan's mother is here today, in the fourth or fifth row.
So it turns out the inertia, which governs angular motion, scales as a fifth power of R.
In fact, if Uttar Pradesh was its own country, it would be the fifth largest country in the world.
They were at the bottom of the menu, they were like fifth, I thought they had no chance.
Today, worldwide, it is more than 70, and in the developed parts of the world, more than 80. 250 years ago, in the richest countries of the world, a third of the children did not live to see their fifth birthday, before the risk was brought down a hundredfold.
When I was in the fifth grade, a student asked me if my family was refugees.
One fifth of all living mammals is a bat, and they have very unique attributes.
And this whole idea of 30 kids in fifth grade, all learning the same thing at the same time, you know, is clearly an industrial throwback.
But the fifth commandment gave me an epiphany: "You shall honor your father and mother."
Think how different America would be if every American knew that this is the fifth time Western armies have gone to Afghanistan to put its house in order, and if they had some idea of exactly what had happened on those four previous occasions.
Since then, we've doubled the number of roads in America, and we now spend one fifth of our income on transportation.
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