Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [adj] six " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's organisation has run their commercial activities for the past six years . |
| 2 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 3 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 4 | The 2nd cellos here play in unison with the double basses for the first six bars , and after that in the octave above , the double basses being more effective if kept in the lower octave . |
| 5 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Observations for the last six days before maturity were dropped , as was the period around the October 1987 stock market crash . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had won the court case , had obtained over £2,000 in costs , was due £4,750 as his half share of the sale price of the Baron , and William Dunlop had still to pay him half of the stallion 's considerable stud earnings for the preceding six years . |
| 11 | But you 've had no dealings for the past six or seven years ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a later study of economic growth in the USA , and Western European countries during the period 1950–62 , Denison found the minimum contribution of education to economic growth to have been of far less importance : 15 per cent for USA , 13 per cent for UK and Belgium , and the rates for the remaining six countries varied from 7 per cent for Norway and Italy , to 2 per cent for West Germany . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Totals for the past six months , which is since the TV campaign started , are more than 15,000 up on last year . |
| 18 | The horses oggled back , equally bemused — especially the stallion , who would have failed dope tests for the next six months . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | She had been amassing clothing coupons for the last six months and was determined that Constance would have a magnificent dress from one of the London stores . |
| 21 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |