Example sentences of "[noun] in the six " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has been helped a great deal in the six weeks of preparation for the tour by England 's last great left-arm fast-bowler , John ‘ J.K. ’ Lever and the team 's new top bowling coach , Geoff Arnold . |
| 2 | Panić and Vernon ( 1975 ) also concluded that long-run instability in demand seriously undermined investment in the six manufacturing industries studied . |
| 3 | The Halifax estate agency revealed a £14.5m loss in the six months to the end of July . |
| 4 | MANGANESE Bronze , the black-cab maker , fell from a £287,000 profit to a £492,000 pre-tax loss in the six months to end-January , due largely to losses at its Darlington iron foundry , which is closing at a cost of £1.7m . |
| 5 | SCOTTISH Metropolitan Property tumbled from a £2.72m profit to a £840,000 pre-tax loss in the six months to mid-February , dented by 57 p.c. jump in interest charges to £10.3m , and compensation of £201,881 to former managing director Gordon Milne , and former development director Paul Birch . |
| 6 | This , plus the cost of carrying other unsold flats , helped turn profits of £6.4m into a £21.5m loss in the six months to end-September . |
| 7 | Patients were allocated randomly to receive chemotherapy or only supportive care in a ratio of 2:1 according to performance status , metastatic disease of the liver , and weight loss in the six months before entering the study . |
| 8 | The assignment was determined by randomisation in blocks of six ( as defined by a computer generated random number list ) according to performance status ( score 0–1 v 2–3 ) , metastatic disease of the liver ( assessed by ultrasonography or computed tomography , or both ) , and weight loss in the six months before entering the study . |
| 9 | Cost-cutting helped boost operating profits 78% to £904,000 in the six months to end October . |
| 10 | The Colne Valley Divisional Labour Party was formed in June 1917 , the Leeds City Labour Party reorganized itself in April and May 1918 , and promoted the formation of constituency parties in the six divisions which made up Leeds , while constituency parties were formed for all four of the Bradford seats in April 1919 . |
| 11 | Interim pre-tax profits rose by an estimated 10 per cent to £17m in the six months to 1 October . |
| 12 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 13 | The impact of the two is underlined by the sharp 24.7 per cent drop in turnover in the six months to 31 December , traditionally CALA 's weaker half . |
| 14 | GERALD RATNER 'S pay cut from £574,000 to £383,000 a year cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain 's near 2,000 shops ballooned from £17,700,000 to £30,600,000 in the six months to August . |
| 15 | A savage price war between European fresh food suppliers depressed a first-time contribution from meat group Sutherland in the six months to September . |
| 16 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 17 | Thirty hens in the six by eight house . |
| 18 | According to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities there was a massive 37.5 per cent increase in rent arrears in the six months immediately following the benefit changes in April 1988.37 Other benefit changes may have contributed to this increase in arrears : the change from supplementary benefit to income support ; the insistence that everyone should be required to pay at least 20 per cent of their rates ( community charge ) and all of their water rates ; and the replacement of urgent needs payments by social fund loans . |
| 19 | It is estimated that half of the 700,000 lakes in the six eastern provinces of Canada ( south of 52 °N ) have alkalinity ( acid neutralizing capacity ) values below 50 µ eq/l , that is , they are extremely acid sensitive . |
| 20 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 21 | The company , which is in the process of a major expansion drive aimed at moving away from its traditional freezer centre image , made pre-tax profits of £30.1m in the six months to July 3 from £24.22m previously . |
| 22 | On a slightly different note , no doubt Tim Tully will find an excuse to justify the latest atrocity carried out by the British imperialist war machine in the six counties . |
| 23 | The good news is that we are already over a quarter of the way towards our target , having raised the sum of £34,055 in the six weeks since the trial . |
| 24 | They jumped from £500,000 to £1,700,000 in the six months to July . |
| 25 | Great Universal Stores , the biggest of the mail order firms , raised pre-tax profit by £8million to £171million in the six months to September , although catalogue sales and retail earnings slumped by £8million . |
| 26 | Great Universal Stores , the biggest of the mail order firms , raised pre-tax profit by £8million to £171million in the six months to September , although catalogue sales and retail earnings slumped by £8million . |
| 27 | The shares surged 24p to 343p on news that profits had leapt 31.4% to £2.81m in the six months to end-September . |
| 28 | The Haynes Publishing Group continued along the road to recovery in the six months to end-November 1992 . |
| 29 | The most favourable circumstance was the existence of governments in the Six which were broadly consensual in their view on integration . |
| 30 | The enlarged Group made £1,371,000 profit before tax in the six months compared to £1,886,000 in the same period last year . |