Example sentences of "in six [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In six instances , all male , the informant did not wish to provide his date of birth , although year of birth was given .
2 More than half the book is based on material from the ensuing trial , which resulted in six BCCI staff being sentenced to terms of up to 14 years and BCCI being fined US$14 million .
3 Social workers are likely to be more interested in chapter three which contains good summaries of the development , organisation and training for social work in six EC countries .
4 This team research project will provide an analysis of the policy process in six EC member states ( three in each of Southern and Northern Europe ) and also in the EC institutions for understanding how exactly the creation of the SEM will affect and be affected by environmental policy considerations .
5 Physical examination ascertained independence in six activities of daily living : feeding ; dressing ; transfer from chair , bed , or toilet ; bathing ; toileting ; and locomotion .
6 Several sacred works date from this time : the so-called ‘ Coronation ’ Mass , K.317 , written for the crowning of a statue of the Virgin Mary in a local church ; another missa brevis for Salzburg ; and two sets of Vespers in six movements ( Vesperae de Domenica , K.321 , and Vesperae solennes de confessore , K.339 ) .
7 The project would begin by building sanitary installations in six cities and planting trees on the riverbank .
8 The study , by a team from the Harvard School of Public Health , tracked 8,111 adults in six cities — all of which met current standards — for about 15 years , taking account of smoking habits , obesity , exposure to occupation risks and other variables .
9 Porter International is staging a series of two-day training sessions for its salesmen in six cities across America , starting mid-January .
10 Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages .
11 If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that .
12 You have a one in six chance of coming a cropper on the slopes — which is trebled if you are under the influence of tranquillisers .
13 For the first time a fairly extensive observation exercise was initiated involving close reporting of the drama teaching in six education authorities conducted throughout the period of one academic year .
14 Will Clark , the Giants first baseman who narrowly missed the 1989 batting championship with an average of .333 , drove in six runs with two homers - one a grand slam — as San Francisco routed the Cubs 11-3 in the first game of the best-of-seven National League championship series at Wrigley Field .
15 The former former British light-heavyweight champion from Wolverhampton stopped Dave Lawrence in six rounds at Birmingham in a warm-up for his final eliminator with Southampton 's Steve McCarthy for the right to challenge Tom Collins .
16 In six rounds of voting , deputies repeatedly failed to elect a candidate by the required majority of 531 votes .
17 The book is in six chapters , but really falls into two parts .
18 In six chapters and 191 pages ( including useful notes and bibliography ) , Cable outlines a new theory of Old English ( OE ) alliterative verse ; explores the revival of alliterative writing in Middle English ( ME ) ; empirically demonstrates the distribution of final -e and its consequences for metricality in ME texts both alliterative and rhymed ; explores the superficially similar decasyllabic metres of Chaucer and Shakespeare , concluding that they are respectively different underlying metres ; and ends with a chapter on " theoretical implications " which links prosodic theory with critical theory .
19 But if the claimant is not represented and does not attend , the success rate falls to one in twelve , while unrepresented attenders win in about one in six cases .
20 The reasons for dose reduction were fatigue in six cases , thrombocytopenia in two , neurotoxicity in two , and leukopenia in one .
21 Sixty two patients died from metastatic disease ( 72% of all deaths ) , 18 from causes unrelated to carcinoma , and in six cases the cause of death was unknown .
22 Preoperatively seven patients had endoscopic oesophagitis ( Savary-Miller grades 1–2 ) , histologically confirmed in six cases .
23 In six cases the diagnosis was confirmed shortly before the scan ; the remaining 27 had long standing disease ( mean duration 8.4 years , range 1–32 ) .
24 The mean interval between baseline and repeat biopsies was 15.0 months ( 6 months in six cases , 12 months in 10 , 18 months in 22 , and 24 months in two patients ) .
25 In six cases the patients had moved away and no recent information was available .
26 Miandad , 84 not out overnight , went on to make 145 in six hours — his 22nd century in his 100th Test — before being bowled by Ravi Shastri .
27 In Brisbane , Sri Lanka ground out their highest score in the three Tests they have played against Australia , adding 194 in six hours yesterday to end the third day of the first Test on 275 for six .
28 Greig won the toss but England then batted poorly , scraping their way to 197 in the first day , although only 80.4 overs were sent down in six hours , Close 's 60 being the best effort .
29 The distance involved was 90 miles in six hours , the route being in the Chichester area .
30 I still like doing records like that — ‘ Question And Answer ’ was done in six hours , fifteen tunes in six hours !
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