The phrase "a plurality of five" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a group or number of items, particularly in legal, political, or statistical discussions.
Example: "In order for the motion to pass, it requires a plurality of five votes from the committee members."
Alternatives: "a majority of five" or "five members".
But these conditions "do not constitute atypical and significant hardships in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for a plurality of four justices.
As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor acknowledged in her opinion for a plurality of four justices: "The demographic changes of the past century make it difficult to speak of an average American family".
By a plurality of four to one and counting, not counting those who did not, the Undecideds squared off in a donnybrook with the Don't Knows, broken up by the Have No Opinions Worth Mentioning.
"To be sure, requiring dancers to wear pasties and G-strings may not greatly reduce these secondary effects," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor conceded in her opinion for a plurality of four justices.
Rather than accommodate Justice Kennedy's more modulated view, which was that the districts' interest was compelling but the remedies they chose were too broad, the chief justice stuck to his position and ended up writing only for a plurality of four rather than a majority of five.
Election day returns showed Sifton with a plurality of thirty-six votes, but by the time contested ballots were dealt with this had turned into a majority of two votes for Brett.
A plurality of the hundred of us were merely physicians or attorneys, and I could see only one man in pants hiked up around his stomach.
Although the survey is non-scientific, a plurality of the nineteen respondents suggested that the name be kept as Iloilo International Airport.
In true Epicurean spirit (here and in book 6 too; see especially 6.703 11), his favoured policy is to list a plurality of explanations of one and the same phenomenon without selecting one as correct.
To get his name on the slate for the nomination at the party convention, a candidate has to secure a plurality of delegates from five states.
