Sentence examples for in every five words from inspiring English sources

Knowledge of only the 2000 most frequent word-families would typically mean that approximately one in every five words encountered in an academic English text will still be unknown and thereby render the text largely unintelligible (Nation & Waring, 1997).

I only understood one in every five words you said, but I did manage to partially decipher your anecdote about how David Lynch solves everything with cappuccinos, and that Lara Flynn Boyle is a "psycho".

You wouldn't mention a specific product name every five words in normal conversation, so don't do it in your writing.

I'm a good upstanding man of God, so the only things I ever google are "[actual dictionary definition of like one in every twenty words I type on a daily basis at my job typing words]" and "diego maradona photos looking mad?".

Bruce Humes, at paper-republic, recently spotlighted some interesting factoids on the size of the Chinese literary-translation world, including the fact that China has seventeen firms involved in literary translation, and that an English-to-Chinese literary translator is likely to earn between fifty and one hundred Yuan, or seven to fifteen dollars, for every thousand words in the target language.

His microphone doesn't seem to be working properly, because only about one in every five of his words is actually loud enough to hear.

Describe your life in five words.

In five words, he was right.

In five words, I was altered.

In five words, my commitment solidified.

Scarborough later succinctly summed up "the foreign policy pronouncements of Donald Trump and what he's trying to do" in six words: "In every case, it's retreat, retreat, retreat, surrender, surrender, retreat".