Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 2 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 3 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 4 | England was now at war with Hitler 's Germany , and would be so for the next six years . |
| 5 | At 3pm , he will meet Clinton and the two will be together for the next six hours , an indication that the president regards the Prime Minister 's visit as more than just a courtesy call . |
| 6 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 7 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 8 | ‘ I often feel that forwards waste too much time in scrummaging especially in the first six scrums of a game ’ , says Derek Bevan . |
| 9 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 10 | It was only over the last six holes that Faldo put a spurt on . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ We have achieved a great deal together over the past six years . |
| 12 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 13 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
| 14 | It 's hot , it 's happy and it 's home for the next six weeks , along with the University Arms Hotel a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 15 | I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’ |
| 16 | In addition , nationally in the first six months of 1991 there was a 53 per cent . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 18 | Instead the characters will be phased out gradually over the next six months . |
| 19 | The signal responses of two and four-terminal passive linear networks have been considered extensively in the previous six chapters . |
| 20 | JAMES FREEMAN , chairman of the Mid-Hants Railway plc , the company which runs the Watercress Line between Alresford and Alton , has reported favourably on the past six months trading in a briefing for shareholders and members , writes RICHARD BEAN . |
| 21 | By stocking slowly in the first six months you could increase this slightly , to 25″ . |
| 22 | And somewhere in the last six months he found time to contribute some enthusiastic atmospherics to New Order 's World Cup single , ‘ E Is For England ’ . |
| 23 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 24 | Boro were eight points behind after the first six seats and 12 in arrears two races later . |
| 25 | His lordship had called , indeed bellowed , so often over the last six months that George had come to expect little else . |
| 26 | They have been caught in the crossfire of this particular Serbo-Croat war and have responded by fighting against the Serbs whose reservist soldiers in the Mostar barracks have behaved atrociously over the past six months . |
| 27 | Well for the first six months , if you were to be taken seriously ill you would |
| 28 | A party from the Ordnance Survey left after having been stationed here for the last six months . |
| 29 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 30 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |