Example sentences of "six [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he still maintains a special affection for Northern Ireland , and this has led to an exciting project initiated by the Arts Council , in association with Queen 's University and the Festival — Demidenko will give six recitals in Northern Ireland ( not just Belfast ) plus six masterclasses for five young Ulster pianists , in the 1991–2 season , finishing in May . |
| 2 | ( Subscription tickets for the series of six recitals are available from The School of Music , Queen 's University , price £30 ( £20 ) ) |
| 3 | ( The first of six recitals illustrating the development and evolution of the piano repertoire from 1700 to 1950 will be given by Nikolai Demidenko tonight in the Elmwood Hall — see page 8 ) . |
| 4 | If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars . |
| 5 | And they used to take about six loads a day you see . |
| 6 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 7 | After an attempt to silence him failed , John Buckingham , bishop of Lincoln [ q.v. under Bokyngham ] , in May 1382 ordered the investigation of sixteen articles brought by three friars ; in July Swinderby abjured six heresies and five errors . |
| 8 | A further small group of six authorities said that some money was available but could not estimate how much . |
| 9 | SSI inspectors visited the London Borough of Croydon , the first of six authorities where the new assessment regime is being monitored to gauge the effects of the care reforms on the ground . |
| 10 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 11 | The world has answered Saddam Hussein 's invasion with 12 UN resolutions … backed up by forces from 28 countries of six continents . |
| 12 | It appeared to be a city which could cater to anything one 's heart desired : all varieties of food from the six continents , restaurants and bars open twenty-four hours a day , and everything else under the sun easily available just for the cost of a phone call . |
| 13 | I wish to present a petition containing seven hundred and ninety six signatures organised by the Bell Group community childcare , set up due to lack of affordable child care facilities in the Belgrave area . |
| 14 | Sir I wish to present a petition containing a hundred and sixty six signatures of people who are opposed to the shutting off of the road calling instead for |
| 15 | However , once they have destroyed six Part-Gargoyles , then assume that the adventurers have managed to reach the warded door at the end ( location 14 ) . |
| 16 | In Fig. 8 I have illustrated the basic version which permits six buds on the main permanent branch and nine on the secondary branch . |
| 17 | The six graphs describing the freedoms of the complete system were then available ( see Figure 7.34 ) and used to produce the incremental assemblies shown in Figure 7.35 . |
| 18 | The team left Cambodia on July 26 having secured the remains of six servicemen . |
| 19 | According to the official Tass news agency six servicemen , part of the contingent stationed in east Uzbekistan since the outbreak of violence between Uzbeks and Kirghiz in June [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] , were returning from leave to rejoin their unit when the fight broke out on a bus . |
| 20 | AFP , quoting official Lebanese sources , reported on Aug. 22 that an Israeli navigator , Ron Arad , was alive , but that the other six servicemen were dead . |
| 21 | Her engagement present was hardly internationalist or fashionable : two dead fish , six casks of sake , some silk for a kimono . |
| 22 | As Bramley are already promoted to the Second , with Ryedale York and Workington doomed to the Third , the six clubs in contention for the First Division 's second relegation place are the only sides anticipating a nervous Easter . |
| 23 | In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League . |
| 24 | Hendrie , who has had six clubs , said : ‘ It 's just nice to settle somewhere . |
| 25 | ‘ Ideally , it would involve the six clubs in Scotland and 10 in England who failed to qualify for European competition . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We now have five or six clubs in Wales that could hold their own against any in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I should n't criticise it as everyone else does , because without the M25 , it would be impossible to get to all of the six clubs that we have built , strung out like pearls , ( or glass beads , my critics would tell you ) around its perimeter . |
| 28 | There 's actually some very good news on this front and there 's now five or six clubs throughout Scotland , and the aim to encourage children , obviously , to remain non- smokers |
| 29 | City 's goals tally is the lowest among the six clubs in the elite group scrapping for the title . |
| 30 | ‘ Newcastle are one of the top six clubs in this country . |