Example sentences of "[was/were] six " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were six of them , five with small slices taken out and the sixth with the knife still in it . |
| 2 | ‘ They are ten times easier to deal with today than they were six months ago , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 3 | There were six village landing-points in the Samara guberniia and eight to the north and south of Saratov . |
| 4 | Standing by , were six Red Devils from the Parachute Regiment who were flown by helocopter to their drop point above the Thames , close to the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 5 | There were six bedrooms on the first floor and a further two in a small staff flat above , and from every window a different view of the adjacent hills and woods . |
| 6 | Altogether , there were six members of Jahsaxa 's peer group present . |
| 7 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |
| 8 | In the forest of Essex towards the end of the thirteenth century there were six riding foresters , all appointed by the warden , and removable at his pleasure . |
| 9 | ‘ So if you were six when she died , William ca n't be more than five years younger than you , right ? ’ |
| 10 | The subscriptions at this time were six guineas for Men and £4 14s. 6d. for Ladies . |
| 11 | There were six small bodies in all , three in the Thames near King 's Meadow , another in the Kennet , and a further two that the police found when they dragged a local pond called Clapper 's Pool . |
| 12 | There were six deep and severe scalp wounds . |
| 13 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 14 | ( If you are 5 feet 4 inches , there is no point in wishing that you were six inches taller . ) |
| 15 | The OPCS report on disability , published in 1988 , estimated there were six million people in Britain with some level of disability . |
| 16 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 17 | There were six Frenchmen left in the room alive ; now there were four . |
| 18 | Next to the shop in Culver Street were six Church almshouses which had been rebuilt in the eighteen-forties to replace the original dwellings . |
| 19 | When we were six to two on evening patrol , to be truthful , we used to go out looking for drunk and disorderlies — just to stop the bloody boredom . |
| 20 | There were six nests in 1970 and eight in 1975 . |
| 21 | Between 1947 and 1976 there were six spring records comprising 25 birds between 25 April and 24 May , and 21 autumn records comprising 46 birds between 17 August and 22 September . |
| 22 | There were six or seven Met Waafs , including a sergeant and two corporals , and the rest were LACWs like me . |
| 23 | He asked them to make drawings , and compared these with the artwork kept by fond parents , which the subjects had produced when they really were six . |
| 24 | When the children were six months or six years old , it was a fairly straightforward matter recognizing their needs and being available at times that could also be fitted neatly into your own routine . |
| 25 | Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf . |
| 26 | Some of those walls were six feet in height . |
| 27 | On his right were six small , one-and-a-half pounder [ 0.73-kg ] guns and six Coehorn mortars protected by a 100-strong guard . |
| 28 | Already there were six in one bed , three at the top and three at the bottom , and they would soon have to make room for Matt , the boy born before she took in Corrie . |
| 29 | I went past without stopping , noting that there were six roomettes altogether it the forward end of the car : three each side . |
| 30 | There were six decks to the level of the wheelhouse . |