<p>I would like to use Linq to query a bus schedule in my project, so that at any time I can get the next 5 bus arrival times. How can I limit my query to the first 5 results?</p>

<p>More generally, how can I take a slice of a list in C#? (In Python I would use <code>mylist[:5]</code> to get the first 5 elements.)</p>

```
```
var firstFiveItems = myList.Take(5);
```
```
Or to slice:
```
```
var secondFiveItems = myList.Skip(5).Take(5);
```
```
And of course often it's convenient to get the first five items according to some kind of order:
```
```
var firstFiveArrivals = myList.OrderBy(i => i.ArrivalTime).Take(5);
```
```