Example sentences of "six [noun pl] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Suffolk side had the perfect start , as the impressive Fry waltzed through the visitors ' defence to settle any early nerves and just six minutes later the title was effectively Tuddenham Road bound . |
| 2 | Six hours later the civilians were being moved on . |
| 3 | Six hours later the civilians were being moved on . |
| 4 | However , six months later the scheme was revised . |
| 5 | Six months later the Campaign was ready with a formidable opposition case to make . |
| 6 | Despite all this and more we decided that the asking price of £28,000 was about right and six months later the purchase was completed and we moved in . |
| 7 | Six months later the advertising agency was taken over by its successful rivals ; two months after that they were both incorporated in De Chavigny ( Advertising ) , a new company with offices in London , Paris , Zurich , Milan and New York , registered in the Balearic Islands , and with sole responsibility for the marketing of all de Chavigny products and investments , from steel to hotels and property , world-wide . |
| 8 | Six months later the conversion was complete . |
| 9 | Six months later the policy shift that the FDP had sought was endorsed by the voters . |
| 10 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 11 | Six months ago the council called in the police to investigate claims that building materials had been misappropriated for private use . |
| 12 | Six months ago the auctioneers were showered with bids from rich Mexicans . |
| 13 | According to the US Department of Agriculture , American apple growers lost $125 million in the six months following the scare over the preservative Alar , which was claimed by the Natural Resources Defence Council ( NRDC ) to cause cancer . |
| 14 | ‘ And yet six years ago the music of the sidh was heard in Ireland again , Fergus . ’ |
| 15 | Six years ago The Economist thought about introducing a face called Excelsior Insertio into the paper . |
| 16 | Six years ago the practice was prohibited . |
| 17 | Six years later the Catalogus Plantarum listed forty three roses and stressed the importance of growing them informally because ‘ being intermix't with flowering trees and shrubs in small wilderness quarters [ they ] afford the most agreeable prospect of any of the Flowering Trees and the great variety of Sorts do continue flowering at least three months . |
| 18 | Six years later the traveller and writer Eric Newby had a chance meeting with Thesiger in the Hindu Kush . |
| 19 | For six years following the adoption in November 1927 by the PCF Central Committee of the " class against class " tactic , the party followed an increasingly doctrinaire , Bolshevik course . |
| 20 | Six days later the treaty was ratified and the concession agreement came into force to last until July 28 2042 when the Tunnel reverts to the governments . |
| 21 | Six days later the TUC Congress finally called weakly for ‘ practical aid ’ to the strikers but refused to commit itself to cutting off supplies . |
| 22 | Six weeks later the grey won the Ayr Gold Cup for his new trainer . |
| 23 | Six weeks later the town , which had suffered heavily from the bombardment of English cannon , capitulated . |
| 24 | Twenty editions were published in the six weeks following the King 's death , and several more even after the book was banned by the Government . |
| 25 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 26 | that 's six miles all the way down |