Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 2 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 3 | This means that the method employed to capture the shrimp in the colder months is a special shrimp net pushed along in the sandy shallows . |
| 4 | There were more tales about the photographer in the following months . |
| 5 | Later , those who were to piece together the events at the camp of the early months of that year , from the time of snow till the approach of spring , were to wonder what was the ambition of Michael Holly , prisoner of Hut 2 in Zone I of Camp 3 in the Dubrovlag complex . |
| 6 | The 0.8 p.c. rise in the index between the two months was largely due to changes in excise duty in the Budget . |
| 7 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 8 | Apart from odd skirmishes between small reconnoitring groups in the west during the early months of the war , there were three main incidents in the county . |
| 9 | Provisional figures published by the Central Statistical Office showed the deficit for the three months to the end of March was £4.5bn , compared with £4.35bn the previous quarter . |
| 10 | Provisional figures published by the Central Statistical Office yesterday showed the deficit for the three months to the end of March was £4.5bn compared with £4.35bn the previous quarter . |
| 11 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 12 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 13 | During the course of the coming months , the terms of what Henry could obtain in concessions from the French ( or at least from that branch of the body politic which was , at that moment , dominant ) were worked out . |
| 14 | Mr Milburn is writing to Mr Baker with figures showing that while 29,021 crimes were recorded in the county in 1978 , the figure for the nine months to September 1991 was 63,418 a 118.5 per cent increase . |
| 15 | Average orders for the three months to March in the US market rose 5.4% at $2,194m compared with the figure for the three months to February , and were 46.5% higher than the figure compiled a year ago . |
| 16 | Had she imagined the violence of the previous months ? |
| 17 | It is musically unrelated to The Art of Fugue , but its presence in this context — Bach dedicated his poignant revision of the piece during the last months of his life — is neither inapposite nor in any sense to be regretted . |
| 18 | As the House knows , for those benefits which are not income-related , the basis for the uprating is the full increase in the RPI for the 12 months from September 1990 to September 1991 , which was 4.1 per cent . |
| 19 | And also , of course , we 've so worded the er , amendment to rule to ensure that anybody who does any work in the sector in the eighteen months before the election period , even of a temporary nature , will be eligible to stand as a member of the section committee . |
| 20 | This procedure will achieve temporary relief only since collateral veins are likely to develop across the anastomosis within a few months , and will ultimately bleed . |
| 21 | If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority . |
| 22 | With effect from the start of an insolvent liquidation of the vendor , unless the court grants leave , the vendor 's company name may not be used by the purchaser if the purchaser or directors of the purchaser have been directors or shadow directors of the vendor during the twelve months preceding the liquidation . |
| 23 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 24 | Interest received from the borrower over the six months might not be sufficient to cover the bank 's own interest costs on deposits . |
| 25 | I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again . |
| 26 | News Corp was further boosted by satellite television company BSkyB , which climbed out of the red during the three months . |
| 27 | The group plunged £37m into the red in the nine months to September , with most of the damage caused by insurance claims to cover the hurricane . |
| 28 | After the influenza of the early months , he contracted further feverish colds , with attendant bronchial trouble , right up to the early summer . |
| 29 | City pundits see troubles for the economy in the coming months but are much more optimistic about prospects a year or more from now . |
| 30 | The treaty was never implemented , however , perhaps because the French could not raise the first instalment of the ransom in the six months specified , and in May 1359 the ‘ Second Treaty of London ’ was concluded . |