The phrase "a column of six" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a vertical arrangement or grouping of six items, often in contexts like data presentation, architecture, or design.
Example: "The table was organized with a column of six entries for each category."
Alternatives: "a vertical line of six" or "a stack of six".
After the ½ CIRCULATE, the formation looks as it does in the diagram, with a column of six in the middle and a wayward dancer out on each end.
We again have a column of six in the middle and two dancers on the ends (this time it's the side boys), but this time it's not immediately clear that the dancers on the ends of the wave aren't involved.
As a column of six armoured troop carriers arrived in Slavyansk on Wednesday morning and armed men clambered down, locals crowded around them in the square next to the occupied city hall.
By studying the anatomy of nerve axons the wires that connect nerve cells they had concluded that information is relayed through a "column" of six layers of specialized nerve cells in a series of hand-offs that begins in the mid-layer of the cortex, then moves to other layers before triggering a behavioral response.
Cover establishes a geo-fence around these locations and whenever you go there, the left side of your lockscreen shows a column of six of your apps that fit that situation.
The Russian gunmen seized a column of six armored vehicles from Ukrainian soldiers and narrowly missed grabbing three others.
Soldiers in civilian clothes walked toward the morgue in a column of two.
A column of four American armoured vehicles moves slowly through the muddy, narrow, crowded streets of the old souk.
The samples were sieved on a column of three sieves, with decreasing mesh size.
(In vacuum technology, pressures are often expressed in torr, which is equivalent to the pressure of a column of one millimetre of mercury. One atmosphere equals 760 torr).
"It hasn't affected morale," Mr. Guzmán said as he patrolled the streets at the head of a column of four pickups full of heavily armed officers in black garb with machine guns and flak jackets.
