There shall be a president, a vice-president, a secretary-treasurer and an executive committee of five persons, of which latter the president and secretary shall be members.
It may be in me a defect of political fortitude, but I acknowledge that I cannot entertain an equal tranquillity with those who affect to treat the dangers of a longer continuance in our present situation as imaginary.
The moment an alteration is made in the present plan, it becomes, to the purpose of adoption, a new one, and must undergo a new decision of each State.
The council of appointment consists of from three to five persons, of whom the governor is always one.
Five persons couldn't get inside the landau, and the Breton gentleman had to sit by the driver.
In another place, named Villavieja, Cæsar found that the four or five personsinterested in Castrian politics were against him.
The average, therefore, of poor-rates on the remaining number, is forty shillings for every family of five persons, which make the whole average amount of taxes and rates L14 17s.
The quantity of air breathed by forty-five persons in three hours, according to the data just given, is 3375 cubic feet.
The household of Napoleon, though reduced to thirty-five persons, still represented an Imperial Court.
On that day I received a list of twenty-five persons whom I was ordered to arrest.
In 1776, with his family of five persons, Mr. Paxton embarked at Boston with the British Army for Halifax, and in July of that year sailed for England in the ship Aston Hall.
He went to Halifax with his family of five persons, and thence to England.
In 1775, he was an Addresser of Gage; and the year following with his family of five persons, he accompanied the British Army to Halifax.
I went to the front door, where I was met by five persons, who acquainted me they were a Committee from the people to demand a resignation of my seat at the Board.
The jail-gang at this time, notwithstanding the examples which had been made, consisted of upwards of twenty-five persons; and many of the female prisoners were found to be every whit as infamous as the men.
Out of seventy-five persons, mostly Lascars, with whom he sailed, nine died, and a fever existed among those who remained on his arrival.
If they did as they were told I believe each boat could accommodate sixty-five persons.
Boxhall said that under the weather conditions experienced at the time of the collision the life-boats were supposed to carry sixty-five persons.
Bucknell's account of the part women played in the rowing is as follows: "There were thirty-five persons in the boat in which the captain placed me.
The two missions numbered seven men and two women, making the American population about twenty-five persons.
Whitman is on his way back to Oregon with eight hundred and seventy-five persons, with all their equipments and cattle.
There were in 1905 on the Hill twenty-five old families with seventy-five persons, and twenty-five Irish Catholic families with one hundred persons.
In these dwellings live four hundred and five persons.
At Surfside, a summer resort opposite Quintana, there were seventy-five persons in the hotel.
Thrilling Experiences of People During the Great Storm--Eighty-five Persons Perish by Being Blown from a Train--Adventures of Survivors at Galveston.
But the reduced statement still leaves in Arz-roum, at the rate of five persons in a family, a total of two hundred and fifty thousand persons, besides Armenians.
They consist of one hundred thousand families each, which, at five personsin a family, makes two totals of five hundred thousand souls.
The population throughout is stated at five persons to a house.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five persons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
