The Homeland Security Department is proposing to replace the five colours with clearer language to describe the threat from terrorism, officials say.

BBC: US may scrap colour-coded terror alerts

Only four or five colours (and only the local colours of the object), only the brush, an empty canvas without preliminary sketches and, at most, a day to work in.

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Five to seven years of this, with each bit of the sky being recorded in five different colours, should be enough to complete coverage of a quarter of the sky.

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The shuffle is now available in five colours.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Apple overhauls entire iPod line

The result in front of an enthusiastic crowd was a good start for new Giants player-coach Steve Thornton who was returning to the Belfast colours after an absence of five years.

BBC: Edinburgh 1-4 Belfast Giants

Five hundred years ago, a caravel flying the colours of the King of Portugal rounded the curve of the continent.

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Astronomers say that the key to SDSS's success in quasar spotting is its recording of precision digital data in five colours, which allows researchers to easily distinguish quasars from more common faint stars.

BBC: Most distant objects observed

If you like sleek, minimalist hotel design, you will love the 156-room, five-star Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom, where rooms are decorated entirely in just three colours: white, grey or black.

BBC: Business trip: Vienna