Example sentences of "a sixth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , I 'm sure that wild animals have a sixth sense that tells them they 're safe , even in the presence of their arch-enemy , man . |
| 2 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 3 | And now these fears have been compounded by a sixth profitability study by accountants Spicer & Oppenheim whose gloomy conclusions may well prolong the sector 's agonies further . |
| 4 | Joe Ropati scored a final try for Warrington , with Turner adding a sixth goal . |
| 5 | CAROL HAMMERTON is a sixth form pioneer . |
| 6 | A sixth selects orange juice and Perrier . |
| 7 | The Giants were leading the series 3-1 and wanted desperately to avoid returning to Wrigley Field for a sixth game . |
| 8 | Walls ' ice cream and other frozen food sales in Europe featured prominently in the Uni-lever combine 's third-quarter sales and profit growth of around a sixth . |
| 9 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 10 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 11 | As things stand , there is now one car for every 4.7 metres ( 5.1 yards ) of road in Japan — a sixth of the space in America or France . |
| 12 | Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art . |
| 13 | It was obvious from the empty space at one end that the box had once contained a sixth decoration . |
| 14 | He has a sixth sense to recognise the genuine from the phoney . |
| 15 | ONE firm of stockbrokers accounted for a sixth of complaints and inquiries to the Complaints Bureau of the Securities and Futures Authority and the London Stock Exchange last year . |
| 16 | Another fall put him out of the reckoning in the first heat , but an eighth and a sixth were good enough to earn seventh overall . |
| 17 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |
| 18 | Bentham dropped a sixth on the first end , then a two on the next and spent more than three hours trying to catch up . |
| 19 | The programme to improve houses with bed-sitting rooms , flats and other houses in multiple occupation has also been curtailed to a sixth of the 1983–84 level . |
| 20 | We are not claiming either that He has somehow implanted in us a sixth sense that gives us certainty He exists whilst our other five senses provide no such assurance . |
| 21 | A sixth Leapor property is found nearby adjoining Cow Close . |
| 22 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 23 | SCIENTISTS DEVELOP A MISSILE DRIVEN BY A SIXTH GENERATION COMPUTER . |
| 24 | There would normally be five peaks where the fingers were forming but if the limb bud , accidentally , was wider than normal , a sixth peak could form , giving the sixth finger . |
| 25 | A school that , though equipped with a sixth form , did not have good A level results could be picked out as an inefficient school . |
| 26 | In particular the block examination at 16+ appears to have lost its justification , when almost all 16-year-olds will go on to further education of some sort , whether in a sixth form or elsewhere . |
| 27 | Barsanuphius , a sixth century director , wrote : |
| 28 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
| 29 | Britain will contribute about a sixth of the £250 million cost . |
| 30 | The River Jordan will then carry only some 200 million cu.m of water a year , a sixth of it 's flow 30 years ago . |