Example sentences of "[coord] six [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His was the genius that enabled King Edward I to raise great fortresses by threes and fours in the space of five or six summers . |
| 2 | FIVE OR SIX PIGMENTS IN USE AT ONE TIME IS USUALLY TOO MANY AND CAN LEAD TO DISTORTED WORK . |
| 3 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 4 | ‘ We now have five or six clubs in Wales that could hold their own against any in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 5 | There 's actually some very good news on this front and there 's now five or six clubs throughout Scotland , and the aim to encourage children , obviously , to remain non- smokers |
| 6 | Major record companies normally require at least five or six options . |
| 7 | And cowerings of India : five or six wars |
| 8 | She had been in the habit of drinking five or six mugs of coffee a day ( a massive onslaught to the nervous system ) . |
| 9 | Dances also figure largely in the repertory for consorts of five or six viols but fantasies were composed in quantity for viol consorts , and later , as in the case of Gibbons 's nine published Fantasies of Three Parts ( C. 1620 ) , for consorts in which the highest or two upper instruments were violins . |
| 10 | He could n't tell whether there was a steady stream of them , or whether it was the same five or six Hunters who were torturing him . |
| 11 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 12 | Sometimes we can go five or six games before spotting a half chance . |
| 13 | When a team loses five or six games it is too easy to accept another defeat . |
| 14 | The Donald Morris Gallery of Detroit and New York reported a total of fifteen sales ‘ of five or six figures ’ by such artists as Aristide Maillol and Alexander Calder , and Peter Findlay sold at least two big ticket works by Mary Cassatt and Emil Nolde . |
| 15 | No , an oak table and an oak sideboard and that was all and just four chairs or six chairs I think it was , yes , er and it was erm that furniture was a utility , er I 'd forgotten about that , it 's taken me back now , that was a utility dining room suite of really first class quality , it was a tallish sideboard with two doors with big bow legs and a square table , erm , but it was solid oak really good |
| 16 | Now that 's unusual , because for the last five or six budgets have always been Labour/Liberal Democrat budgets . |
| 17 | So you get about five or six garments in width across there . |
| 18 | There are 16 clauses in that extract ( excluding comment clauses , ) , more or less , and five or six hedges — that 's about one in three . |
| 19 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 20 | He had about five or six Polos there , and of course they 're all nice and shiny are n't they ? |
| 21 | So I mean if I , if I produced for instance si five or six masters and then people can go and do copies here and there that 's actually not a bad way of doing it . |
| 22 | This can be most effective in cases where the dancer takes a slow preparation into a firm but slight demi-plié then suddenly rises and turns five or six times . |
| 23 | Opo developed a special friendship with a 12-year-old girl , who would enter the water five or six times a day to swim with or stand and talk to her . |
| 24 | ‘ When she had repeated herself five or six times , the CIA man slammed the phone down in a rage , and Reagan never learned what he had to say . ’ |
| 25 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 26 | Additionally , before each dose is taken : ‘ a slight change in the degree of dynamization is effected if the bottle , containing the solution of one or more pellets , is merely well shaken five or six times , every time before taking it . ’ |
| 27 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 28 | He 'd write two or three words , rip up the sheet because of an error and do this about five or six times . |
| 29 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 30 | Some SSDs have reorganised radically five or six times in ten years . |