Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ See p. 37138 for this Aden meeting and publication on Dec. 1 of a draft joint constitution , requiring ratification by both parliaments within six months , and then endorsement by referendum after a further six months ; see p. 37266 for progress on unity in February 1990 . ] |
| 2 | On May 9 the Lok Sabha approved a resolution extending President 's rule for a further six months from May 11 [ President 's rule had first been imposed in May 1987 — see pp. 35247-48 — and had been renewed since at six-monthly intervals ] . |
| 3 | The government announced its intention on Aug. 11 to extend president 's rule for a further six months , shelving plans for state assembly elect-ions . |
| 4 | CHESHIRE made light work of Cornwall to open their championship programme with a resounding six wicket victory at Stalybridge yesterday . |
| 5 | He was sure it would work for him and his doggedness was rewarded , when , after using the new tool for a mere six months , he retained his Ryder Cup place and ended the 1989 season in 11th place on the money list with more than £188,000 . |
| 6 | Police say they 're concerned for the safety of a twenty six year old man from Hereford who 's gone missing from his home . |
| 7 | The body of a seventy six year old man has been found in a shop in Northampton . |
| 8 | Larger leaves like these are best left completely submerged in cold water for a good six hours before being used in arrangements . |
| 9 | The talented female star headed for a welcome rest after a hectic six months that 's seen the release of her first solo LP and current hit single Walking on Broken Glass . |
| 10 | She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months . |
| 11 | Finally , Shooting the Actor ( RC79 ; 3 hours approx ) is different again : Simon Callow reading his own diary of a long six weeks he spent in Yugoslavia towards the end of 1987 , acting in a film called Manifesto under the direction of Dusan Makavejev , and monitoring daily , in understandably narcissistic vein , the deterioration of their professional relationship . |
| 12 | On Aug. 4 , 1989 , the Karnataka High Court upheld the constitutional validity of the imposition in April of President 's rule in the state [ see p. 36591 ] , and on Oct. 12 the Lok Sabha approved its extension for a further six months from Oct. 21 . |
| 13 | A PACKED public meeting last night saw the launch of a major six month campaign to keep quarry traffic on the rails and off the roads . |
| 14 | And according to Autocar & Motor , it will reach 60 from a standing start in a mere six seconds . |
| 15 | Gary McAllister' exquisite chip six minutes from time sparked a frantic late charge from the faded champions to salvage a replay from a disastrous six days in which they have been dumped out of Europe by Rangers and mauled 4–0 at Manchester City . |
| 16 | More important , the Theatre Royal ( 1836–7 ) and the Grey column ( 1837–8 ) in Newcastle , stately neo-classical structures which were key elements in the heroic replanning of the city centre by Richard Grainger [ q.v. ] , were evidently also his conceptions , and suggest that he might have become a more significant figure in his own right had he not died relatively young , surviving his father by a mere six years . |
| 17 | After the death of his father , Tennyson and his family continued to live at the rectory for a further six years . |
| 18 | Wingti 's position was improved by the defection to his government of a further six MPs , but it was widely assumed that some of those not rewarded with Cabinet office were unlikely to remain permanently within the government coalition . |
| 19 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 20 | The dam is to be built on the Bio Bio river , Chile 's largest , and environmentalists fear that it will open the way for a further six dams on the river , as well as damaging the monkey puzzle Araucaria araucana pine forests , which the government has declared a national monument . |
| 21 | Sixteen of them had a house officer for a full six months . |
| 22 | It was the only friendly thing in a lonely waste of unseen watery hills over which Viking shouldered her way at a laborious six knots . |
| 23 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |