Example sentences of "six [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For £60 , Melanie Wein and her mother Natalie offers you six hours of tuition in eyelid flutters , pouting lips , slick chat-up lines and how to make yourself wanted . |
| 2 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 3 | Although Downing Street accused the press of producing misleading information , the row falls into a pattern apparent over the past six months of confusion in the Government and a lack of communication between departments . |
| 4 | Crime , in the first six months of Portsmouth in the residential areas on the outskirts , not in the town centre , five hundred and eighty break-ins into houses , eighty seven break-ins into houses . |
| 5 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc lost a crucial six months of sales in the 80486 market after Judge William Ingram ruled late on Wednesday last week that the company does not have rights to copy any of Intel Corp 's microcode under their 1976 contract . |
| 6 | For this reason it can be a major problem in houses calves up to six months of age in some Mediterranean countries . |
| 7 | The Geography Working Group ( DES 1990b ) admitted the difficulty presented by the requirement to divide attainment targets into ten levels , mentioned six aspects of geography in which progression could occur , but did not attempt to justify its detailed ordering of levels . |
| 8 | I wo n't deny I find it harder to keep pace , what with collecting the rents , keeping the books ready for the accountant , and overseeing the more recent purchases , like the six acres of land in Accrington which we 're negotiating to sell on . |
| 9 | She was an illegitimate child who spent most of her first six years of life in a darkened room with a deaf mute mother . |
| 10 | Six days of discussions in the Venezuelan capital , Caracas , mediated by UN envoy Alvaro De Soto , led on May 21 to an agreement in principle between representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) and the Salvadorean government of President Alfredo Cristiani . |
| 11 | Efforts to persuade Iraq to pump oil to pay for essential imports , under the terms of UN Resolution 706 [ see pp. 38406 ; 38451 ] , ended in failure on Nov. 24 after six days of talks in Baghdad between government ministers and the head of the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , who told a press conference that " the government of Iraq may be held responsible for failing to take advantage of the window of opportunity … afforded by the arrangement for oil exports and imports of essential needs " , but added that Western governments could alleviate Iraq 's humanitarian problem by releasing all Iraqi assets . |
| 12 | If there are already five or six firms of solicitors in your town with well-established reputations for traffic work it might not be the best idea to pursue that when trying to increase your market share . |
| 13 | When by 1292 John of York had become too old and infirm to perform the duties of his Forest office , Edward I granted him a pension of ‘ three pence daily out of the issues of the forest , at the hands of the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and six cartloads of firewood in the said forest by view and delivery of the foresters there ’ . |
| 14 | Even when Victor Hugo came up here , in I 843 , he was still able to declare , on no known authority but his own that you could pile six cathedrals of Notre-Dame in Paris ( the subject of one of his novels ) one on top of the other ‘ before the balustrade on top of its towers would reach to the surface of the water ’ . |
| 15 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | Six handfuls of salt in the bath water is especially good for ‘ aches and pains ’ and can make you feel fit and refreshed . |