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Example sentences for "five hundred"

  • Watson went, reported favorably, and in a day or so the young man received a letter from Hubbard, offering him the position of General Manager, at a salary of thirty-five hundred dollars a year.

  • The Western Union is paying rent for twenty-two thousand, five hundred offices, all of which helps to make telegraphy a luxury of the few.

  • At the distance of five hundred years, the Visigoths and Burgundians, who revenged the defeat of Ariovistus, usurped the same unequal proportion of two thirds of the subject lands.

  • At the distance of five hundred years, the Visigoths and Burgundians, who revenged the defeat of Ariovistus, usurped the same unequal proportion of two thirds of the subject lands.

  • Porportuk made it thirty-five hundred, and gasped when the Eldorado king raised it a thousand dollars.

  • Porportuk again raised it five hundred, and again gasped when the king raised a thousand more.

  • A third time Porportuk swung the club of his wealth, making a clean raise of five hundred dollars.

  • A base majority bowed and retired; and his trusty band was diminished to two thousand, and at last to five hundred, volunteers.

  • They were received in the general council of Lyons, by Pope Gregory the Tenth, at the head of five hundred bishops.

  • Penalties have been awarded against offenders to the amount of five hundred pounds.

  • Chosen a member of the Council of Five Hundred, which refuses to admit him.

  • And there shall be for the sanctuary on every side five hundred by five hundred, foursquare round about: and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.

  • Five hundred pounds is a good bit of money, though; isn't it, Moody?

  • Don't leave me time enough to take the stingy view of five hundred pounds.

  • A subscription of five hundred pounds, my Lady, would provide for everything--if it could only be collected.

  • Their sheep and camels were inherited by the Mussulmans: three hundred cuirasses, five hundred piles, a thousand lances, composed the most useful portion of the spoil.

  • Directly before us, rose the perpendicular height of four or five hundred feet.

  • Apparently at the last statement of accounts, there had been a balance of five hundred francs in favor of Fendant and Cavalier.

  • There will be five hundred of them," asserted Michel Chrestien, "but they will be worth five hundred thousand.

  • At the outset they won three thousand francs, then they lost and fell to five hundred; again they won three thousand seven hundred francs, and again they lost all but a five-franc piece.

  • Will estimated that at least four hundred lodges were represented; that would mean from twenty-five hundred to three thousand warriors, squaws, and children.

  • Twenty-five hundred acres are devoted to alfalfa and twenty-five hundred sown to corn.

  • Will could contain himself no longer, and blurted out: "Start it at five hundred, and mebbe some of the rest of us can get in.

  • The indictment stated that sixty trees thus destroyed were found within a radius of five hundred feet.

  • Vaudoyer will give us five hundred francs if you will let him catch your mother at a tree.

  • Five hundred francs a month and not a penny more, and the hire of a carriage.

  • Very good, you give me the thousand francs I have had and you will add five hundred francs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    five cases; five centuries; five copies; five degrees; five dollars; five drops; five fathom; five francs; five hours; five hundred thousand dollars; five miles; five million; five pairs; five pieces; five roubles; five sail; five shekels; five shillings; five thousand; five times; five tons; five volumes; five were; mountainous regions; show that; three squadrons