SQL*plus -- limiting maximum number of returned rows?

In SQL*Plus (not embedded SQL!) is there any way of limiting the number of rows returned by a query?

I am working on a report that is supposed to find the "top 5" items in a catagory. The query returns 0 or more rows based on the selection criteria, sorted in the appropriate order. Some queries return a dozen or more rows, but I'm only interested in the first 5.

If I were using embedded SQL in a C program (or a perl script using oraperl) the solution would be trivial. For internal reasons, however, I'm stuck with using SQL*Plus.

Any ideas?

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