Which preposition to use with sixty

of Occurrences 7%

The residences of some sixty of the most eminent professors of various scienceselected by their colleagues as seats fall vacant, with the approval of the highest Court of Judicature and of the camptâcluster around a huge building in the form of a hexagon made up of a multitude of smaller hexagons, in the centre whereof is the great hall of the same shape.

on Occurrences 3%

there are only some sixty on board; but I do not feel equally grateful for their allowing me to pay double price for a cabin to myself when two-thirds of them are empty, not to mention that the single fare is eight guineas.

for Occurrences 2%

From the first this problem promised to be much easier for Sobke than problem 2, and although the actual number of trials necessary for the solution is greater by sixty for problem 3 than for problem 2, comparison of the data of the tables justifies the statement that the third problem was both easier and more nearly adequately solved than the second.

into Occurrences 1%

January 5, 1773, Washington states that he has received sixty tickets in the Delaware lottery from his friend Lord Stirling and that he has "put 12 of the above Sixty into the Hands of the Revd.

over Occurrences 1%

The excitement in the 'sixties over each new Dickens can be understood only by people who experienced it at the time.

at Occurrences 1%

So saying, Jenkyn turned, his sixty at his heels, and swung away until they were lost to sight in the woods to the east.

to Occurrences 1%

During the first he was busily employed settling as many difficulties as he could, examining the general state of the country, and gradually growing into the change that was developing in the minds of the home government, the change, that is, from the Americanizing sixties to the French-Canadian seventies.

from Occurrences 1%

Many streets and roads are shaded by spreading mango-trees, a fruit brought in the sixties from Brazil, and perfected in size and flavor here by the patient efforts of French gardeners and priests.

in Occurrences 1%

By noon there were some sixty in the straggling ranks, but when shortly afterward they met a squad of eighteen rallying whites, armed like themselves mainly with fowling pieces with birdshot ammunition, they fled at the first fire, and all but a score dispersed.

Which preposition to use with  sixty