Example sentences of "for about six " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allow the plant to rest with no food and little water for about six weeks after flowering has finished . |
| 2 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 3 | There had not been a crisis for about six months , though , so it was clearly time for one . |
| 4 | Eventually , a couple who had been putting food down for Sadie for about six months managed to trap her in a garage and driveway . |
| 5 | Mr Tutton said the treatment was suitable for about six out of 10 short-sighted people . |
| 6 | For about six hundred years the port , ( or the earlier , less grand version , known as the Laghetto di Sant' Eustorgio , the little lake of Sant' Eustorgio , in roughly the same spot ) was used to deliver marble for the Duomo from the Visconti quarries at Candoglia in the Val d'Ossola which ends at Lake Maggiore . |
| 7 | Bronwen reported the next day that Owen had slept deeply for about six hours , and for the first time in ages had not woken up several times during the night to go to the toilet . |
| 8 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 9 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
| 10 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 11 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 12 | During the harvest , which starts in September and continues for about six weeks , an enormous machine is driven up to the tree trunk , which it locks in a mechanical embrace . |
| 13 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 14 | She 'd known John Delaney for about six months , but the last few hours had been the catalyst . |
| 15 | The adults take flaked food and live for about six years . |
| 16 | This bottled preserve should keep for about six months . |
| 17 | According to her watch she had slept for about six minutes . |
| 18 | I would do no hard training for a month afterwards and not race for about six weeks ’ |
| 19 | Leave to dry for about six hours before varnishing |
| 20 | Leave to dry for about six hours . |
| 21 | That way we can put the donkey in a field at about 11am and leave him for about six hours while people have other entertainment . ’ |
| 22 | I did it for about six months here and there . |
| 23 | Filming just the ELR train scenes took two and a half days , one shooting finishing at 04.00 hours , and all for about six minutes of the 90 minute drama Angels , which was a pilot for a possible TV series . |
| 24 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 25 | ( It reported in 1965 ; nothing was acted upon for about six years and even then very little was implemented . ) |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , Jim putted brilliantly in all four rounds , finished equal seventh , genially accepted a cheque for about six thousand pounds and then gave me his own cheque for four hundred . |
| 27 | Follow the road for Uzes for about six kilometres , then follow signs for the magnificent Roman aqueduct — the Pont du Gard ( left bank ) — and then for Collias . |
| 28 | I was a damned good half for about six minutes , at which point some lumbering Neanderthal would drop his 17-stone frame on my more delicate structure , and I would view the rest of the game from the sideline , where I lay whimpering and counting broken bones . |
| 29 | GWR engines worked the turn for about six weeks . |
| 30 | I 'm a 27-year-old woman and I 've had a bald patch about the size of a 10 pence piece on the top of my head for about six weeks now and the hair does n't appear to be re-growing . |