The phrase "a space of six" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a physical or abstract distance, gap, or interval that measures six units in some context, such as time, length, or quantity.
Example: "The seating arrangement allowed for a space of six between each chair to ensure comfort."
Alternatives: "a gap of six" or "an interval of six".
A1 JOURNEY INTO THE WASTELAND -- A descent beneath the World Trade Center reveals a grotesque landscape with entire office floors compressed into a space of six inches.
A descent beneath the World Trade Center is a passage into a grotesque landscape of stalagmites formed by dripping metal, entire office floors compressed into a space of six inches, and train cars smashed all the way down to the tracks by collapsed concrete ceilings.
With bigger aircraft, like the behemoth Airbus A380, they leave a space of six or seven nautical miles to the next plane.
Within a space of two hours the city has been plunged into a state of open revolution.
Entries were restricted to a space of four square inches — usually a square or a horizontal or vertical rectangle.
After the attacks, more than 4,500 aircraft nationwide were forced to land or were diverted in a space of two and a half hours.
The drive of a microcosm of sorts about LSU's offense this season: It can look excellent, then inept – and all in a space of two plays.
The demonstration for Senator Reed brought all convention business to a dead halt for a space of twenty minutes while his supporters were parading and going through the antics on the floor that such occasions traditionally call for.
THE NEWS In a space of three days, two soldiers and a police officer were killed in terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland that were claimed by two different nationalist splinter groups.
The Pocket Reader, an existing handheld scanner created by Applied Digital, reads the radio frequency ID number when its passed over the skin within a space of three or four inches.
This would be a second exile for the Nabokovs — in a space of two decades, they had escaped both the Bolsheviks and the Nazis, each time by a matter of hours.
