Example sentences of "[coord] six [noun] " 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 | Every 100 kilometres had approximately two defensive positions , 200 soldiers and five or six cannon . |
| 3 | FIVE OR SIX PIGMENTS IN USE AT ONE TIME IS USUALLY TOO MANY AND CAN LEAD TO DISTORTED WORK . |
| 4 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 5 | ‘ We now have five or six clubs in Wales that could hold their own against any in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Major record companies normally require at least five or six options . |
| 8 | And cowerings of India : five or six wars |
| 9 | She had been in the habit of drinking five or six mugs of coffee a day ( a massive onslaught to the nervous system ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sometimes we can go five or six games before spotting a half chance . |
| 14 | When a team loses five or six games it is too easy to accept another defeat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Now that 's unusual , because for the last five or six budgets have always been Labour/Liberal Democrat budgets . |
| 18 | well the best way , well the way I always go is through Barbon , through Barbon and then into Dent and Dane is strung out about five mile or six mile you know it 's just er Dane in itself is so lovely you get over from Barbon |
| 19 | So you get about five or six garments in width across there . |
| 20 | There are 16 clauses in that extract ( excluding comment clauses , ) , more or less , and five or six hedges — that 's about one in three . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had about five or six Polos there , and of course they 're all nice and shiny are n't they ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 30 | He 'd write two or three words , rip up the sheet because of an error and do this about five or six times . |