Sentence examples for contained about five from inspiring English sources

They estimated the bomb contained about five kilograms (11 lb) of explosives.

The cashier weighed the tomatoes, and told the man that the price of his box, which contained about five small tomatoes, would be $14.49.

Each can contained about five cents worth of silver; the salvaged metal returned $2000.

The gas station owner had just gotten into his car and was headed to a bank with a bag that contained about five days' worth of receipts and cash, Lorenz said.

Wagner's last opera, "Parsifal," contains about four and a quarter hours of music.

Each contains about three trillion cubic feet of gas reserves — about what Britain consumes in a year.

Each bulb contains about four milligrams of mercury, compared with 500 milligrams in old-style glass thermometers.

The protein 392 amino acids in length contains about eighty CTL-epitopes, many of which are overlapping and are totally restricted by ten different HLA class I molecules.

The drop contained about six trillion snippets of DNA.

Each sample contained about one million bacteria, not one billion.

"The pilot beam contained about one billion particles," he said.