Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 2 | And for a few fleeting months during our 1992 winter of discontent , he acted as guru to the IRFU on the way ahead for the sport . |
| 3 | Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II . |
| 4 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 5 | And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz. |
| 6 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 7 | However , I buy this product regularly and for the last three months the price displayed on the shelf has been £1 . |
| 8 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 9 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 10 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
| 11 | ‘ This massive geophysical effort will continue for the rest of this year and well into 1993 , and for the next four months , we will be using two seismic crews to enable us to push ahead . |
| 12 | In a sentence : for six months the farmer fed the pig , and for the next six months the pig fed the farmer , which is fair . |
| 13 | Fill in and return the payment instruction overleaf and for the next three months you 'll receive the New Internationalist magazine absolutely free and with no obligation , plus your gifts . |
| 14 | No. 1–20 passed into the hands of London Transport and for the next few months continued to work as before . |
| 15 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 16 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 17 | All this calls for a very careful and flexible system of budgeting and control , particularly at the outset and during the last three months of the year . |
| 18 | To analyse changes in urinary albumin and sodium excretion and mean arterial pressure we meaned the values ( log transformed for urinary albumin excretion ) recorded during the placebo period and during the last three months of follow up . |
| 19 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 20 | But by the 26th , he was in ward in Dalkeith , and during the next two months was moved from there to Seton , and then to Blackness and St Andrews before finally being released on lo April . |
| 21 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
| 22 | So if you need any help , a ‘ Come and Try It Day ’ , publicity , help with facilities etc. contact your Regional Rep. ( see Jan 1982 Q.T. Notes ) She is already in contact with the regional Sports Council and during the next few months will be preparing an overall programme for the whole Region . |
| 23 | Last year it was £9.5 billion , and in the first nine months of this year it is £2 billion . |
| 24 | According to Japan 's Ministry of Finance , direct investment in the Philippines by Japanese companies in 1987 was $72,000,000 , while in 1988 the figure rose to $134,000,000 , and in the first six months of 1989 the amount was already $101,000,000 . |
| 25 | Table 4.2 shows the total amount of time spent by the clients in institutional care ( whether short- or long-term ) in the first six months , and in the first 12 months , after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 26 | The pregnant mare needs about 14 percent of he diet in protein during the last third of her pregnancy and in the first three months of lactation . |
| 27 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 28 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 29 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 30 | Sears has been busily redirecting its 1,500 strong chain away from traditional sites and in the next 18 months a further 100 to 150 net closures are likely . |