Example sentences of "six [noun] for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She normally emerged every five or six hours for a hunting trip of about half an hour , returning to the den with eels .
2 Sensible diet and regular brushing of teeth will obviously help , but one should visit the dentist at least once every six months for a check up .
3 Here the Dublin girl holed from 30 feet to cut the margin to one hole and bravely holed from six feet for a half at the seventeenth .
4 He was on permanent peg 2 in Hollinhey Bay where he tipped with an open-ended swimfeeder and gozzer maggot in six feet for a netful of skimmer bream .
5 The real ale group CAMRA has warned that if the Greene King bid is successful they 'll have to pay another six pence for a pint of their favourite beer .
6 The master manufacturers of Manchester wish that prices might always be high enough to enforce a general industry ; to keep the hands employed six days for a week 's work ; as they find that even one idle day , in the chance of it being a drunken one , damages all the other five , or rather the work of them .
7 The 24-year-old faces a wait of six weeks for a work permit and Hitchcock will use that time to advance his claims on the No 1 jersey .
8 Nothing is more annoying than when a dole queue fan shells out six pounds for a ticket to a show which is nothing but a huge yawn for the artist involved .
9 and like six pound something when I , and six pound forty when I had Eran , so I thought if we call it six pounds for a Saturday , when you have Jordan I 'll give you three pound
10 Get the fuck out of here , how 's he gon na get six quid for a ticket ?
11 they charged me thirty six quid for a plus V A T , plus a fiver till I bring back the other one .
12 But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings .
13 Below are six requirements for a patio which we want you to place in order of importance :
14 To ask , without prior notice , to withdraw six students for a tutorial when the ward is desperately busy will not help relationships .
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