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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a difference of five" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing numerical values or measurements that vary by five units.
Example: "The two test scores showed a difference of five, indicating a significant improvement for the student."
Alternatives: "a gap of five" or "a variation of five".
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A difference of five percentage points is considered significant.
When did you last see a two-way-finesse decision make a difference of five tricks?
When the Clarks decided to put a new floor in the living room about 30 years ago, there was a difference of five inches between the center of the floor and where it met the side of the room.
In practice, it is advisable to maintain a difference of five orders of magnitude between Young's moduli of the cushion and the sample.
According to the SF36 manual, a difference of five points (on a 100 points scale) is considered clinically relevant.
A difference of five points for a dimension of the SF-12 is considered clinically and socially important [ 118].
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There are different proportions above and below a difference of zero.
Similar recognition of antibodies from the same individual by two different PfAMA1 alleles would suggest a difference of zero (0) or a log (difference) of one (1).
"This was a wonderful, gallant exercise," Moynihan said, "and with a difference of six thousand votes in New Hampshire things might have been very different".
Within this group a difference of one single basepair of the D3 sequence invariably indicated different morphologically valid species [42].
It's a difference of two hours.
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