Example sentences of "[adj] six [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sentenced her to nine months in prison for supplying LSD and a concurrent six months for possessing amphetamines |
| 2 | We spent the most exciting six weeks of our lives without a fucking camera because we did n't want to spend eighty dollars . |
| 3 | On Aug. 30 six journalists ( including Diana Turbay Quintero , daughter of former President Julio César Turbay Ayala , and a West German , Hero Buss ) had disappeared while on an assignment to interview Manuel Pérez , the commander of the left-wing National Liberation Army ( ELN ) . |
| 4 | Investments were made in a multi-storey office block in Jos in the hope that its rents would help pay for the newspaper , but the building was still largely empty six months after completion . |
| 5 | It 's now been empty six months . |
| 6 | The Commander-in-Chief agreed to the plan and also authorized Stirling to recruit a further six officers and up to forty men . |
| 7 | By the Spring of 1992 the IHM expects to have added a further six helicopters to the collection , including a Kaman HH–43 Huskie and at least two Russian types , bringing the total fleet list to over sixty rotary winged aircraft . |
| 8 | During 1990 , a further six countries , Algeria , Bulgaria , China , Honduras , Nepal and Paraguay , were negotiating membership . |
| 9 | A further six Arabs were killed for collaboration in mid-September , and Israeli soldiers killed two Arabs during clashes on the West Bank on Sept. 25 . |
| 10 | In a further six cases ( one in Newham , five in Ipswich ) the development officer said she would have liked to provide a little extra help but a support worker was rejected by the client or his informal carer ; and since they did not require the kind of direct help which the development officer could provide , she merely visited occasionally to check whether or not the situation was breaking down . |
| 11 | A further six cultures were positive for M avium subsp silvaticum , of which two each were from Crohn 's disease , ulcerative colitis , and non-inflammatory bowel disease controls . |
| 12 | A further six cultures were positive for M avium subsp silvaticum , two each from the Crohn 's disease , ulcerative colitis , and non-inflammatory bowel disease groups . |
| 13 | Officers and volunteer NCOs were trained at the centre for six weeks before joining the Independent Companies in which volunteer soldiers were trained for a further six weeks by their own officers . |
| 14 | They were so pleased with these that they ordered a further six vessels in 1860 of novel long design , with a narrow beam and flat bottom , which earned them the nickname of Bibby 's coffins . |
| 15 | Cauthen had a further six days added to the four-day suspension he picked up at Goodwood last Thursday . |
| 16 | A further six patients were withdrawn because they could not tolerate the restrictions of the regimen ( three of these were teenagers ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In Britain most people who are in full-time contracted employment receive full pay for six months , followed by half pay for a further six months , if they have a serious illness or accident which prevents them from working . |
| 19 | A further six months and I could run thirty miles with little stiffness afterwards . |
| 20 | The time limit can be extended by a further six months if it appears to be ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so . |
| 21 | Publication of the report is then held over until after the review , and this might mean a further six months . |
| 22 | In his office he had a blackboard , on which he transcribed diagrammatic models of the action , with letters of the ordinary alphabet for characters already invented and letters of the Greek alphabet for those whom he might need to invent ; he was contemplating a further six months of composition . |
| 23 | Consecutive sentences of three months had been passed for two offences of driving while disqualified , with a further six months consecutive for an excess alcohol offence . |
| 24 | Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened . |
| 25 | It may be a further six months to one year before that is true of the Council 's position and , even then , the Secretary of State 's subsequent consideration of any final Review submitted for approval could take even longer . |
| 26 | Damien McGuigan , of Scotch Street , admitted driving while unfit and he was also sentenced to a further six months for driving while disqualified . |
| 27 | Parliament voted on Jan. 17 to renew for a further six months the state of emergency first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] and regularly renewed since then . |
| 28 | 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 ] . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At the end of January the government confirmed that the proposed referendum on whether the temporary merger of the Northern and Eastern provinces should be made permanent [ see p. 36735 ] would be postponed for a further six months . |