Examples of sixth

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The final settlement was reached and signed on the sixth day of the eleventh month of 1833.
In sociocultural terms, this is a view more or less stringently adhered to by a sixth of the world's population.
Teacher-rated academic per formance in sixth grade was not predictive of discordant cases in any of the three trajectory classes.
The sample was age 11 (sixth grade) at the first assessment and age 14 (ninth grade) at the fourth assessment.
Approximately every sixth day, an exchange of the membrane oxygenators and tubes is necessary because of plasma leakage or loss of function.
There were no significant differences in attrition rates at sixth and eighth grades related to peer status or aggression at third grade.
In some cases the contaminants appeared upon the sixth or seventh subculture.
In addition, there was no difference in the pattern of results found for the younger (sixth grade) and older (eighth grade) sample.
The teratogenic risk is highest during the sixth to ninth week of pregnancy.
To carry out the next-higher approximation (to the sixth power) would triple or quadruple the amount of work necessary, which is already considerable.
As in that sample, rates were substantially lower than national norms for high-income sixth grade youth in the current study.
As a result, the sample included some fifth- and sixth-grade students at the first assessment period.
Exclusion of the sixth and subsequent child-births caused the omission of 18% of the urban data and 16% of the rural data under examination.
If any assessments remained at the end of the last experimental session, children were asked to return for a sixth visit to complete the testing.
Their principal finding was that second and sixth-grade children named pictures more slowly when they had words written on them.
The sixth health-care isolate from a biomedical science student had a different antibiotic sensitivity pattern and was not typed.
The sixth volume was published, one might say, in an almost furtive way.
Handbook of the biology of aging, sixth edition.
A sixth and final point should come as no surprise.
We have no explanation for why the sixth unimodal pair has only a single mode.
On the sixth segment, there were no statistically significant main effects or interactions left.
The total number of knights' fees established in the 'central region' in 1135 was between eleven and one third and thirteen and five sixths.
Nonetheless, it causes a relative shortage of pure thirds and sixths on his keyboard.
The gel was cut into sixths across the lanes, and the molecules were extracted from each gel fragment.
After alternating statements, the couple ends up in thirds and sixths, but the blissful presence is too sweet to last.
I will present two such patterns and discuss their functional implications: the closing scalar descent and the harmonization of a chromatic line in alternating thirds and sixths.
Once these had been learnt the pupils should sing up and down the diatonic scale and the teacher might add thirds and sixths above or below the notes.
In sixth- to tenth-century work, it seems possible that it was the only tool the carver had.
Of the four-sixths retained by the tenants, they spend 'directly or indirectly' one sixth in the town.
Because we are examining health status over time, we added a sixth health state, dead.
The planning department of this sixth company questioned the usefulness of determining key environmental issues, particularly given the effort involved.
The average for each grade was a negative value; however, the fourth and sixth graders' averages tended to approach zero.
A sixth wave of data collection was completed at 6 years of age to assess children's social adaptation in kindergarten.
In the sixth episode, the parent again leaves, this time leaving the child alone in the room.
The categories were added at a later date especially for the questionnaire, as were the fifth and sixth questions.
Sixth-order thin-film equation conclusions follow directly from those of the previous subsection.
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