Sentence examples for approaching five from inspiring English sources

The current war is approaching five years in duration.

Not yet approaching five a.m., horses streaming back into the streets and roosters crowing maniacally.

Dividing the whole into two events, as Ms. Hewitt does, results in two afternoons approaching five hours total.

Sports is the most outrageous example: what ESPN charges cable operators keeps growing, and is now approaching five dollars per customer.

The rise in business productivity that began in 1995 appears to have accelerated since 2001, with the annual growth rate approaching five per cent.

The money would be good, somewhere approaching five figures for a day's shoot, the scout told the owners of the location, who, as fortune would have it, could definitely use the cash these days.

In New York, enrollment is approaching five million.

For a start, suburban territory has got more crowded - the 2011 census found the population of Outer London to be approaching five million, which is half a million more than in 2001.

The lads are approaching seventy.

Weinberg was approaching fifty but game.

Nowadays, recording costs are "approaching zero".