Example sentences of "six [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Skegness Festival in 1938 had a Carnival Procession which took five or six hours to get through the town , the Rector of Stiffkey now forgotten . |
| 2 | It took the Belgians six hours to rush to the defence of the Red Cross compound and by that time the fighting was over . |
| 3 | Of these 500 , we 'll pick out six readers to act as the stars of the project . |
| 4 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 5 | 350 car workers have had their contracts extended by a further six months to cope with the demand for the Maestro and Montego cars . |
| 6 | It took around six months to get to the quality audit stage and we were then able to invite in the assessor . ’ |
| 7 | They have temporary visas for six months to stay in the UK . |
| 8 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 9 | Even when the decay is spreading , it typically takes six years to travel through the tooth enamel into the softer dentin , where it becomes a threat to the nerves in the root canal . |
| 10 | Working overtime financed the tank ( total length 15 feet ) which arrived on June 30 , 1990 , and took six men to move into the house . |