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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a whopping five" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to emphasize a surprisingly large or significant number, often in a humorous or exaggerated way.
Example: "The team managed to score a whopping five goals in the final match, securing their victory."
Alternatives: "an impressive five" or "a staggering five".
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And as for Roberts, he got a whopping five minutes for his attack on Jonsson.
Even so, a scrunched down MPEG-2 video stream still needs at least a whopping five megabits a second to look good on the screen.
The Uruguayan champions of 1930 played with two defenders, three midfielders and a whopping five forwards (a 2-3-5 formation), which yielded 3.75 goals per game.
The difference, over a typical year, amounts to about a month's more learning in reading — and a whopping five months' more learning in math.
It contains a whopping five times the anthocyanin content of some blackberry varieties, attracting the interest of medical researchers, with a growing body of studies revealing intriguing results.
Ridley has been forever fiddling with the original – thanks to studio interference, CGI developments and DVD reissues there have been a whopping FIVE official versions of Blade Runner.
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The book clocks in at a whopping five hundred and twenty-eight pages, so suffice it to say there are probably hundreds of blank pages in there.
The deficit was now a whopping eight shots.
I found my gate a whopping two minutes before boarding.
That works out to a whopping four agents per facility.
They've all shifted a whopping four million copies?
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