Example sentences of "six [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 Our eleven purpose-built meeting halls and ten executive rooms can comfortably accommodate a meeting for six or a major conference hosting hundreds .
2 ‘ Hardly little at six and a half , or whatever that is in metric .
3 The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later .
4 Arguments were fierce : some said six , some six and a half , some seven .
5 In addition to the muscle-stretching circuits , the recruits tackle endurance runs of up to six and a half miles , aerobics , assault courses and the Military Swimming Test .
6 On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling .
7 Inset left Sam on her tractor-mower : ‘ Three sheep do n't eat enough grass to keep six and a half acres looking tidy ’
8 Six and a half inches !
9 Its large terraced gardens formed but a part of six and a half acres of land enclosed on three sides by high walls and locked gates .
10 At six and a half I loved making up my face , and at ten , the baby book recorded , I wanted to be a dress designer .
11 He then hit Snell for a fifth straight six and a 12th four before being deceived by Kuiper 's slower ball , which he skied to extra .
12 ‘ It was the best news I have had in six and a half years . ’
13 The debt continues , because real short-term interest rates are six and a half per cent ( they are as good as zero in the United States ) .
14 It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa .
15 My weight had by now gone down to six and a half stone .
16 Attlee 's tally it should be recalled , was 148 standing Cabinet committees and 313 ad hoc , accumulated over six and a quarter years .
17 Under her , there have been 30–35 standing-committees and just over 120 ad hocs in six and a half years .
18 Gary was six and a half years old at referral and was described as a very unlovable child .
19 The maintenance of an over-rate of at least 110 overs per six and a half-hour day .
20 A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham .
21 Marks & Spencer , the House of Fraser and the Burton Group had some six and a half million store cards between them .
22 Around six and a half hours are allowed in which to complete the race ; a search party is sent after that !
23 The focal point of Cranswick is the village green , six and a half acres , believed to be the largest in East Yorkshire .
24 Did you know that the average woman will have around 500 periods in her life , adding up to a staggering six and a half menstruating years ?
25 There are five million people out of work and in 1995 this figure is expected to have risen to six and a half million .
26 Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties .
27 Five other companies — Albert Fisher , British Aerospace , Granada Group , Rank Organisation and Ratners — use seven techniques , another 15 use six and a further 21 use five .
28 Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’
29 When I reached six and a half stone or so , my periods stopped .
30 General Yakov Jilinski , then in overall command of the Northwest Front Group , on 17 August directed the First Army , under General Pavel Rennenkampf , comprising six and a half infantry divisions and five cavalry divisions , north toward the fortified area around Königsberg .
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