Example sentences of "[vb past] about six " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German bombers came about six every evening but nobody stayed indoors . |
| 2 | On trying to get this going in Hartlepool the other week they attracted about six men . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Happened about six months ago , up at Wilf Tillet 's farm at Halmore , ’ Bert continued , ‘ Surely you remember ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The door opened about six inches . |
| 7 | On average these people claimed they spent about six hours a week on such work , and this was equivalent to about 400,000 full-time workers . |
| 8 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
| 9 | So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound . |
| 10 | Mobile mums is a group that started about six months ago . |
| 11 | You feel like er , that 's whose , like ex soldiers throughout the company , and he said to Colin er , he said , how many people are you thinking about employ , our Colin seems to think there 'd be enough work to keep 'im going , like , he says , he says , well how many people are you thinking about employing , he says , only only me and me like , it 's oh , oh , he says , there 's plenty of work to keep two of going , he said , I thought you employed about six . |
| 12 | he must 've fell about six feet |
| 13 | And er , so I mean he was pretty well , he kept about six shire horses , those big |
| 14 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |
| 15 | This took about six hours to record , the eventual programme being of 30 minutes duration . |
| 16 | And once the springs were cleared again , and all the junk removed , I 've , I did n't mention that it , it took about six months to get all the junk , prams and barbed wire and tins etcetera etcetera , removed , before you could actually start anything . |
| 17 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 18 | ‘ I bought about six stretchsuits for James , but I had a lot as presents . |
| 19 | Do you know how , if you 've got a lot of toadstools and fungus in your in your garden , you have to dig down do n't you , it said about six inches down . |
| 20 | Well , the Old Fire Station is about three hundred seats , the Apollo seats one thousand two hundred , and we seat as I said about six hundred and fifty . |
| 21 | Blyth Wright , of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service , said : ‘ We had about six avalanches in October but , fortunately , no one was killed , although one climber was caught up in one . |
| 22 | The girl had about six feet of sunlight left . |
| 23 | ‘ But Merry had about six weeks laid up over it . |
| 24 | By the beginning of the twentieth century they had about six million members . |
| 25 | It took so long , they said , because Motabeng was a village of relatives who married relatives , and nearly everyone had about six hundred relatives . |
| 26 | talking , all messing each other bits up , you had about six spread round your room for that time , and it was so good and we got through it so quick , there were so few mistakes because you only ever had six maximum kids in your room at once at that was only because Terry offered to put on a video an and |
| 27 | Oh they , they used to have several going through the hangers at one time they erm they probably had about six Harvards , and about nine Bostons which were , they were bigger than |
| 28 | and when I looked it up it had about six other words to go with it . |
| 29 | The giro was £20.60 , the fare was £12 and I stayed about six days . |