Example sentences of "about six " in BNC.

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1 AI has received no new information about six members of the Islamic Liberation Party imprisoned in Libya since 1973 for belonging to an illegal organization .
2 Allow the plant to rest with no food and little water for about six weeks after flowering has finished .
3 I have a Caryopteris x clandonensis about six years old .
4 ‘ I 'll come over about six .
5 When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead .
6 ‘ Having seen him about six times , and having spoken to most of their leaders , I believe that the time is right for us to talk to them now , to end this whole conflict once and for all .
7 At this rate , it will be about six months before all the Kurds know their fate .
8 ‘ I had the entire town around me , about six or seven thousand people .
9 It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows .
10 Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was .
11 About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings .
12 About six other Cambridge graduates joined the firm with Sir Adrian and they were put under the protective wing of the head of the employment department , who guided their career progression .
13 The depth is about six foot along the middle , which is the line I will fish , hoping to catch roach to 12 oz .
14 Ingólfshöfdi is an island about six or seven kilometres off-shore , but separated from the mainland by a saltwater lagoon rather than by open sea .
15 On the descent that followed , leading to Låddejåkkåstugan — stugan is hut — about six kilometres , we beat them down by forty-five minutes , freewheeling all the way .
16 This RS1000 , he informs me , has already been to the Arctic about six times .
17 The first time Wexford noticed this — she was then about six — he almost hooted aloud , so grotesque was the likeness between this exquisite piece of doll 's flesh and her gross progenitor .
18 That was the boss ; all the other crews are already on task and D Squadron needs a new gearbox in one of its Chieftains — it 's about six miles from here so they 're sending out a truck with the spares and we 're to meet it there . ’
19 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 .
20 Such a pan usually arises at a depth of about six to ten inches , caused by digging ( or more frequently rotovating ) always to the same depth .
21 The election period , which will last about six months , was launched yesterday in Estonia and Latvia , where voters elected local soviets .
22 ‘ The figures do n't constitute more than about six months of real and viable fishing for our fleet , ’ he said .
23 The waiting time was about six weeks , and each booking cost the NHS £150 .
24 There had not been a crisis for about six months , though , so it was clearly time for one .
25 About six months ago I was very cross with a colleague who had , in my opinion , acted irresponsibly .
26 Eventually , about six weeks after joining , Jane was indiscreet enough to ask why they could not use English writers , and promptly got the sack .
27 NIGEL HAD NOT SEEN KAREN IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS AND WHEN HE finally called on her she was cold .
28 When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived .
29 ‘ In 1955 — he 'd be about six years old then . ’
30 Before coming to City Road about six weeks before , the pair had been all over — Wales , Somerset , Kent , up north .
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