Example sentences of "[noun sg] about six " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Micky 's doing Parkinson tonight — the Beeb 's sending a car about six , Micky … ’ |
| 2 | Without pausing even to take her coat off , Mrs Mentiply bustled into the sitting room , yanked down the flap of the bureau and pulled out a round tin about six inches in diameter . |
| 3 | Mr Brian Pilkington , who runs the Speedstrip furniture business in Melville Street , bought the 15ft. table ‘ on spec ’ at an auction about six weeks ago . |
| 4 | GEOFF : ‘ I was in a bar about six months ago , and had an off-the-shoulder top on . |
| 5 | I mean I think we arrived at the bottom about six o'clock |
| 6 | This was played with a piece of wood about six inches in length and three quarters of an inch in diameter , sharpened to a point at both ends and then placed on the ground . |
| 7 | LASMO is one of the three companies which has made a gas discovery about six miles east of Scarborough off the Yorkshire coast . |
| 8 | Associated reasons for her death were the severe injuries to her nose and mouth , which was broken and swollen , the multiple attempts that had taken place to strangle her and the fact that she also had a large quantity of alcohol in her body about six times the legal level for drivers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All teams will go through a meeting about six , every eight weeks . |
| 11 | By the way I just wanted to say I went out and got totally plastered on Saturday night , came home and watched those goals from Match Of The Day about six times . |
| 12 | Other players knock a ball about six or seven times a week . ’ |
| 13 | On Friday night about six o'clock I would ride my horse then I would brush ( groom ) it and clean my horse 's saddle and bridle . |
| 14 | A brick wall about six feet high stretched away into the blackness of trees to right and left . |
| 15 | To board this train at Loughton Wolverton bound , one had to be athletic , as the platform consisted of a raised boarding about six inches high , on the down fast line . |
| 16 | I have a Caryopteris x clandonensis about six years old . |
| 17 | It was not long before a low whistle called us to where Valdemar stood , and he pointed : on a branch about six metres above us sat one of the most magnificent birds I had ever seen . |
| 18 | I 'll give him a bell about in half hour about six o'clock ? |
| 19 | These were made into a parcel about six feet long , covered in a tarpaulin and wheeled on a hand cart to Looe Station . |
| 20 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 21 | ( As I told you , I had to be along with these owd horses and cows in the morning about six o'clock . |
| 22 | Start the morning about six o'clock and you muck out dress your horse over make him ready we call it make him ready , and you turn out at say , quarter to seven . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Get a chocolate egg about six inches high and place this on a wall made of cake . |
| 25 | During the 1974 season about six individuals occupied such a position within the group . |
| 26 | There had been problems in his relationship with his girlfriend and indeed he 'd come to see my firm about six months ago because of the deterioration in that relationship and had general advice then about his legal position should there be a separation . |
| 27 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 28 | ‘ One of our sergeants took him out of the river about six o'clock this morning , a mile and a half downstream from here . |
| 29 | In fact , at room temperature a diamond has a thermal conductivity about six times higher than a piece of copper . |
| 30 | whole lot about six hundred quid . . |