1 He had worked more than ninety hours in five days.
2 At five minutes past the hour the girl had still not appeared.
3 Four, five, six--seven times they met during the month of June.
4 There would be perhaps five seconds before the guard could rush into the cell.
5 A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete.
6 A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away, almost at the level of their faces.
7 In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.
8 Nothing that I can do or say, or stop myself from saying, will put off your death for as much as five minutes.
9 Soon, very soon, perhaps in five minutes, perhaps now, the tramp of boots would mean that his own turn had come.
10 Only five nights ago he had contemplated smashing her skull in with a cobblestone, but that was of no importance.
11 To be caught with a prostitute might mean five years in a forced-labour camp: not more, if you had committed no other offence.
12 For perhaps five seconds exaltation made him careless, and he stepped out on to the pavement without so much as a preliminary glance through the window.
13 In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
14 The alley led out into the main street, and down the next turning, not five minutes away, was the junk-shop where he had bought the blank book which was now his diary.
15 He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control.
16 Actually, all the possible ways of communicating with her had occurred to him within five minutes of reading the note; but now, with time to think, he went over them one by one, as though laying out a row of instruments on a table.
17 There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking.
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