The phrase "a brood of five" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of five offspring, typically in the context of animals, especially birds.
Example: "The mother hen proudly watched over her brood of five chicks as they pecked at the ground."
Alternatives: "a clutch of five" or "a litter of five".
Home was a top, third-floor apartment in Dyker Heights, where his wife, Yasmeen, tended a brood of five, all girls.
For her (with a brood of five) this means stripping the place to the studs, and a kitchen sterile enough both for brain surgery and a certifiably kosher matzo-ball soup.
She previously wrote a light-hearted post about herself online, saying that she lived with "just me, myself and I... oh yeah, with a brood of five monsters, six if you count the man indoors!" A steady stream of mourners left flowers and cuddly toys near the Kular family home in Ferry Gait Crescent, in the Drylaw area of Edinburgh.
–And he's fathered a brood of five.
Instead, there's the appearance about Wagener of happily living with a brood--in this case, a brood of five one-acts collectively titled "Currently Married" (which began its Interact run this week).
Again, these differences were not evident when males were given a brood of five to raise (X = 0.67, d.f. = 1, p = 0.41, Figure 3A).
Having grown up No. 3 in a brood of six, I envied her.
The author's mother, Evelyn Ryan, was a small-town Ohio housewife in the nineteen-fifties who lived on the brink of dire poverty, thanks to a brood of ten kids and an ineffectual drunk of a husband.
Don't even try extracting the bayou from this good ole Louisiana boy, oldest and boldest of a brood of eight born to Lucille Carville, a tough-talking lady better known as Miss Nippy.
East Is East In 1971, George Khan Om Purii), the Pakistani owner of an English fish-and-chips shop, battles to justify his traditionalist and often brutal ways with a brood of seven children.
What the I.R.S. does not consider, Mr. Block and Mr. Kess said, are offsetting amounts like exemptions for a brood of six children or deductions for mortgage interest or a big charitable contribution or thousands of dollars of dental work.
