Example sentences of "about six " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually , a couple who had been putting food down for Sadie for about six months managed to trap her in a garage and driveway . |
| 32 | The dog 's favourite bush , a hypercium , is against a wall , about six feet from the front door . |
| 33 | ‘ After that he lived for our visits and started repeating ‘ Stroke , stroke , stroke ’ about six times . |
| 34 | At the top of the hill , about six furlongs out , Shikampur still led while Aureole had made significant improvement , but Gordon Richards had found a welcome opening on the rails on the run down to Tattenham Corner and slipped a perfectly balanced Pinza into second place on the turn for home . |
| 35 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 36 | The stage was about six metres wide , the size of an average living-room . |
| 37 | ‘ Lower me about six feet ! ’ shouted Longhi . |
| 38 | ‘ Then there was the big typhus epidemic when I was about six and she died . |
| 39 | He might have been about six . |
| 40 | Mr Tutton said the treatment was suitable for about six out of 10 short-sighted people . |
| 41 | About six feet below them they could hear thumps and scrapes as the luckless Stim dug his way down into the darkness . |
| 42 | In the eighteenth century the majority of garden roses flowered for only about six weeks from the middle of June until the end of July . |
| 43 | It lies between Burrough on the Hill and Somerby , about six miles south of Melton Mowbray . |
| 44 | I own a 1973 Range Rover which about six months ago started playing me up . |
| 45 | I have had this Land Rover for 18 years and rebuilt the engine once about six years ago . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The German bombers came about six every evening but nobody stayed indoors . |
| 48 | ‘ What about six o'clock ? ’ |
| 49 | Mobile mums is a group that started about six months ago . |
| 50 | We lost roughly 1,000 trees in this year 's gales , and we 're worried that the squirrels may be short of fir cones ; they say one red squirrel needs about six acres of woodland to survive . |
| 51 | A special feature of this part of the programme was that it regularly included a section with about six brief items , averaging 20–30 seconds in duration , including sound bites of 10–20 seconds . |
| 52 | A few of the earlier lambs may be sold fat off their mothers , but the main sources of income are from six-to eight-month-old beef calves , store lambs ( about six months old ) , four-year-old ewes which go down-country for cross-breeding and the wool clip . |
| 53 | The relative proportion of silt to clay is remarkably uniform at about six to four ; it is the sand fraction that varies most . |
| 54 | Both mother and baby appeared to be doing well , until , about six weeks after the birth , Esther suddenly felt ill . |
| 55 | The rough is only about six inches high , but in 1961 it was three or four feet of thick , willowy scrub . |
| 56 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 57 | There were only about six spectators . |
| 58 | John Cranko was born at about six in the morning of 15 August 1927 , a Monday . |
| 59 | The top must measure about six feet by four feet … you can please yourself where you put the steps . |
| 60 | JANE is about six foot two and built to match . |