The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

The enormous plates which had held Mr. Jack's four fried eggs and five strips of bacon were still stacked in the sink.

Moreover, the piece is written in five movements, rather than the conventional four of most quintets, and this gives the opus a serenade or divertimento flavor.

-- Score each frankfurter in four or five places about a third of the way through.

We found that wherever you can use two teams on a job, five men, not four, is the magic number ''.

I can lead you to every one of the bodies, and there ain't four, nor five, nor six of 'em -- there's seven!!

It was five minutes after four.

As a matter of fact, this happened every four or five months.

Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.

This subject, who has been undergoing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for five years, did not give a positive Kohnstamm reaction under any of the four standardized conditions used in this experiment while sober.

In the past an orthodontist might have tried, over four or five years, to straighten and fit the boy's large teeth into a jaw that, despite some growth, would never accommodate them.

In other cases, in view of present-day knowledge of head growth, orthodontists will recommend waiting four or five years before treatment.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

In 1802 Henry referred to `` our new carts '' as being about four feet off the ground and carrying five times as much as a horse could pack.

Questioned further, Morse said that there had been four or five priests riding on the same car with him.

His expenses ran another four or five thousand.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Saxton has made only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown run before retiring to the bench.

Manager Hemus, eager to end a pitching slump that has brought four losses in the five games on the current home stand, moved Gibson to the Wednesday night starting assignment.

Scherer also had a big night at bat with four hits in five trips including a double, Len Boehmer also was 4-for-5 with two doubles and Dave Ritchie had a home run and a triple.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

In most amphibians, there are four digits on the fore foot and five on the hind foot, but no claws on either.

The front feet have lost the pollex ( or ' thumb '), resulting in four toes, while the rear feet have all five toes.

The assembly had four main functions: it made executive pronouncements ( decrees, such as deciding to go to war or granting citizenship to a foreigner ); it elected some officials ; it legislated ; and it tried political crimes.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

Some scholars contend that the most ancient and genuine story told of only four sons of Aeolus: Sisyphus, Athamas, Cretheus, and Salmoneus, as the representatives of the four main branches of the Aeolic race.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

Today the archbishop fills four main roles:

* The four main sculptures of the monument are:

The simple Aleut harpoon consisted of four main parts: the wooden shaft, the bone foreshaft, and the bonehead ( tip ) with barbs pointed backward.

Aimaks were originally known as chahar (" four ") Aymaqs: the Taimani ( the main element in the population of Ghor ), the Ferozkohi, the Temuri, and the Jamshidi.

Amakusa ( 天草 ), which means " Heaven's Grass ," is a series of islands belonging to Japan, off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.

In front of it is the Neptunbrunnen, a fountain featuring a mythological group of Tritons, personifications of the four main Prussian rivers and Neptune on top of it.

In addition to the four main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, other islands include:

The four main classes of molecules in biochemistry are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.

Population genetics is the study of allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four main evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow.

A second inner line of four frigates was positioned approximately west of the main line, roughly halfway between the line and the shoal.

Whittaker considered four main ecoclines in the terrestrial realm.

President Prieto had four main accomplishments: implementation of the 1833 constitution, stabilization of government finances, defeat of provincial challenges to central authority, and victory over the Peru-Bolivia Confederation.

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputy prime ministers, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputies, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

Geopolitically, the island is divided into four main segments.

Main inland waterways are the Magdalena – Cauca River system, which is navigable for 1, 500 kilometers ; the Atrato, which is navigable for 687 kilometers ; the Orinoco system of more than five navigable rivers, which total more than 4, 000 kilometers of potential navigation ( mainly through Venezuela ); and the Amazonas system, which has four main rivers totaling 3, 000 navigable kilometers ( mainly through Brazil ).

The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.

The four main stars that form the asterism are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Crucis.

The rhea's body is marked by the four main stars of Crux, while its head is Gamma Centauri and its feet are the bright stars of Musca.

Various peoples in the East Indies and Brazil viewed the four main stars as the body of a ray.