Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] month " in BNC.

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1 When I fourteen months ago .
2 I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine .
3 and Boots own cleansing lotion for my mascara and that 's it , only buy mascara , eye liner and lipstick and blusher and that 's it and it does me six months of the year
4 So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up .
5 ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked .
6 And one lasts me six months .
7 ( ‘ I 'd give them six months , survival when they leave here , ’ the doorman had told her . )
8 Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago :
9 Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth .
10 Formally but icily they replied that they " do not desire to interfere with any views which he may have towards improving his position in life , but they expect that he will give them six months ' notice of his intention to resign the mastership of the School " .
11 Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each .
12 The club continues to occupy the ground under a protected tenancy requiring Butters to give them six months notice to quit but he has changed the locks and was ‘ too busy ’ to allow committee members access to check the pitch on Sunday .
13 A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years .
14 Not up to date , but she does them six months in advance .
15 Soldiers were required to bring with them three months ' supply of provisions , arms , armour and tools for entrenching and other tasks .
16 She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since .
17 The continued increase in Population accentuated the hardships for the Peasants : a great variety of taxes to pay ; the price of imported wheat continually rising , when most peasants could manage to grow only enough food to last them three months ; and the vines and potatoes suffered blight and disease .
18 One of them three months ago for a violent attack .
19 The owners of Rowlands Agricultural Contractors says Lord Beaverbrook employed them three months ago , and a bill for four hundred pounds is still unpaid .
20 You 're giving them three months then are n't you ?
21 Yeah we 're giving them three months notice , if we can do that quickly
22 Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess .
23 I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly .
24 Typically the punter would say : " One of your crew rang me three months ago .
25 It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry .
26 Unbeknown to Joan , her husband had contacted Richard with a plea , ‘ Give me three months alone with Joan .
27 They 'll only give you three months of Sky programmes .
28 After taking the Bar examination you may obtain employment in the legal department of a commercial firm under the aegis of an employed barrister as a ‘ commercial pupil , ’ and this will give you three months ' exemption from pupillage if you afterwards decide to take up practice at the Bar .
29 " Tilda , I only took you three months ago .
30 But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ?
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