Example sentences of "six children " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that she was eight years old , the eldest of six children , when the security men came to the army camp to arrest her father , an officer in the Moroccan army , in 1972 . |
| 2 | Following his death in suspicious circumstances in 1972 , his widow and six children , together with a female cousin , ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 3 | A teacher and mother of six children ( the youngest is now 12 ) , she used to run a playschool and was also a registered childminder . |
| 4 | She was born in County Cork in 1914 , the youngest of the six children of Major JB Arbuthnot and his wife Olive Blake . |
| 5 | I knew a family — six children in that case there were — they got evicted neck and crop just because they cracked a drainpipe . |
| 6 | Under docks and willowherb , the Bunker was still there , sealed but poisoned and poisonous , in a haunted city the spectres of an evil past still emanating from it , not least the ghosts of the six children of the Goebbels , killed by their own parents as a final insane act of homage to Der Führer . |
| 7 | Yet every minute , six children die and six are crippled by TB , measles , polio , whooping cough , tetanus or diphtheria . |
| 8 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 9 | The overwhelming majority of these , the best qualified young people in the country , said they wanted a protected life in a big corporation , a home in the suburbs and a family of five or six children . |
| 10 | By the 1990s the royal family spanned four generations , and the two princesses had acquired a husband each ( one marriage ended in divorce ) , six children , three children-in-law and half-a-dozen grandchildren . |
| 11 | She had six children of her own . |
| 12 | In another crash , 11 people , including six children , were taken to hospital after a coach carrying 45 children collided with a minibus on the A40 near Haverfordwest , Dyfed . |
| 13 | Annie was born in 1864 , the second of six children . |
| 14 | Mother , father and six children set off first by train in open cattle trucks . |
| 15 | I squeezed between them and turned round to greet a woman and six children in the back . |
| 16 | He is indefatigably industrious , and by his own labour alone in drawing , supports a wife , six children , and two servants , in a respectable style . |
| 17 | ‘ During the months of January and February my class six children studied the beaches and sea at Juba . |
| 18 | And she had six children , three of each , yet still found time to appreciate music , a very strong trait of the Tallentires . |
| 19 | I have six children . |
| 20 | A senior teacher , he was , of course , employed by the council , and he also had six children of his own . |
| 21 | At present , six children are killed and 400 hurt in a year in crashes because they were not wearing a restraint . |
| 22 | But the nursery finally opened last October with six children . |
| 23 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 24 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 25 | Aloysia Weber was one of the six children of Fridolin Weber , a singer and copyist at the Mannheim court theatre . |
| 26 | The maisonette in Plymouth which she and husband Gilbert share with two of their six children is to get a dream kitchen . |
| 27 | She inclined her head deeply now ; then , after a moment she turned her attention to Aggie , saying , ‘ You see , my cousin is looking for a nursemaid to help with her six children . |
| 28 | It would have to be ’ — her smile widened — ‘ with six children , would n't it ? |
| 29 | 22 non-sick inmates of the institution were sent to Ampthill , and 88 to Biggleswade , while six children were transferred to the Kempston Children 's Home . |
| 30 | At the moment six children would be going back into middle school in September . |