Example sentences of "[noun] for the [num ord] six " in BNC.
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| 31 | Group profits before tax for the first six months of the year soared by 46 per cent but the final result to 30 June , announced last week , showed a less than sparkling advance of 26 per cent to £1.28m compared to earlier City predictions of £1.4m-plus . |
| 32 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 33 | The society 's bad debt charge for the first six months of this year was £29.7 million compared with £7.2 million for the same period in 1991 . |
| 34 | Observations for the last six days before maturity were dropped , as was the period around the October 1987 stock market crash . |
| 35 | The scheme , along with other CAP reform details on sheep and suckler cow quota , as well as new stocking density calculations , was explained to the meeting by a senior Meat and Livestock Commission economist , Mrs Lesley Greene , who has been monitoring CAP changes for the last six months . |
| 36 | In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks . |
| 37 | TENNIS WORLD 'S ABC figures for the first six months of the year will show an increase in sales of almost 30% in spite of the deep UK recession . |
| 38 | The company were more than twenty five million pounds in the red for the first six months of nineteen ninety three . |
| 39 | It 's aiming for deliveries of 1000 copies of V4.2 a month for the first six months from October . |
| 40 | Roger : The suggested levels are £60 per week for the first six months , followed by £30 per week for the last six months , but these have n't been agreed yet . |
| 41 | Roger : The suggested levels are £60 per week for the first six months , followed by £30 per week for the last six months , but these have n't been agreed yet . |
| 42 | From six , so if you give us data every week for the next six months , and as I say , in six months ' time , we 'll then be working on actuals , but until that time , we 'll work on company averages for you , so that you 've got a plan to work to . |
| 43 | It marks the end to a continuing downturn for the last six consecutive quarters . ’ |
| 44 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |
| 45 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 46 | He appointed a German-born Harvard professor of international relations , Henry Kissinger , as special adviser on National Security Affairs , and these two men dominated American international relations for the next six years . |
| 47 | A botched job , especially for ploughmen , would be visible to all the parish for the next six months — to friends , neighbours , workmates and even the casual passer-by . |
| 48 | The decline in pre-tax profits for the first six months of 1990 ranged from 55.1 per cent for Nomura Securities , the largest trader , to 74.2 per cent for Nikko and Yamaichi Securities . |
| 49 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 50 | Sotheby 's reported an increase of 5.8% in auction sales for the first six months resulting in sales of $567.7 million ( £317.5 million ) and pre-tax auction profits of $9.1 million ( £5.08 million ) . |
| 51 | Many puppies are infected at birth with the roundworm Toxocara canis and so must be wormed frequently on a vet s advice for the first six months of life , and regularly thereafter . |
| 52 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 53 | He planted Fleming over the square-leg boundary for the first six of the day , and hit two fours in his brisk 25 . |
| 54 | As part of a five-year probation , Griffin must not leave the jail-like clinic for the first six months . |
| 55 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
| 56 | The court was told that he faced another drink-driving charge and would be in hospital for the next six weeks . |
| 57 | The horses oggled back , equally bemused — especially the stallion , who would have failed dope tests for the next six months . |
| 58 | The results for Drouot salerooms for the first six months of 1992 proved to be almost ten per cent down on those of 1991 , a clear case of bad to worse which the Paris auctioneers said showed the art market had ‘ stabilised ’ . |
| 59 | For example , consider an alternative transit system ( project B ) which costs £1000000 and has cash inflows of £300000 per year for four years and £500000 per year for the next six years . |
| 60 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |