Example sentences of "[verb] about six " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did visit Cawdor Castle , which lies about six miles south-south-west of Nairn , reached by the B9090 and linking with the B9191 to the village of Cawdor . |
| 2 | Fertiliser is used either in a slow release form , or is added about six weeks after the clover is established , continuing until the nutrient cycle is secure . |
| 3 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 4 | He is mentioned in ‘ Tom Sawyer ’ , and by the end of that book has about six thousand dollars to his name . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yeah although it did n't , it did n't I w I was n't too concerned about it , I thought well you know I 'm resting er and er I 'm the sort of person who only needs about six hours , if I get six hours I 'm okay erm , you know , on a regular basis I 'm talking about . |
| 7 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 8 | Not quite a puppy , but one , say about six months old . ’ |
| 9 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll inherit about six million dollars each . ’ |
| 11 | I had a very good social life and made about six really good friends . |
| 12 | Well you i it took a a while for us to be accepted about six month I would say six month . |
| 13 | The German bombers came about six every evening but nobody stayed indoors . |
| 14 | On trying to get this going in Hartlepool the other week they attracted about six men . |
| 15 | She did something to a man : made him feel about six , and caught with a warm jam puff from the kitchen table . |
| 16 | Er and that 's been quite successful , about twenty five or thirty chief executives , chairman come to that lunch er each each quarter or so er we hosted about six of us and it 's a tremendous opportunity to get to know and be known er in the business community . |
| 17 | I know we 've seen about six times |
| 18 | I could do about six different costing forms , so it 's not like you could have a yellow wallet , because , presumably he 's saying we want a yellow wallet with enquiry form , a costing form , and that is as far as you could have it anyway . |
| 19 | That costs about six hundred to Dijon . |
| 20 | ‘ Happened about six months ago , up at Wilf Tillet 's farm at Halmore , ’ Bert continued , ‘ Surely you remember ? ’ |
| 21 | You could keep about six Neolamprologus brevis in your tank . |
| 22 | But towards end when she only , she only had a pound to lose and she paid about six week on run to go to get weighed to tell her she was exactly same weight . |
| 23 | One selling crockery could balance about six teaplates on one arm , a quick movement and they were in a neat pile in his hand . |
| 24 | This Newsletter will be produced about six times per year . |
| 25 | The door opened about six inches . |
| 26 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 27 | I only owe about six quid . |
| 28 | So we 've got about six weeks in which to do this . |
| 29 | The turn-off to Cajamarca is north of Trujillo , so we 've got about six hundred kilometres of fast drivin' . ’ |
| 30 | But she 's got about six different firms on the computer and was comparing notes . |