Example sentences of "taken [adj] month " in BNC.

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1 Statistics were compiled of the number of samples ( including formal samples ) taken each month by each officer in each area .
2 Measures of availability and response times at the Bank 's main frame computer are also taken each month .
3 The special , which had taken six months to plan , was axed after Best called United ‘ f***ing crap ’ and his former team-mate Bobby Charlton ‘ a miserable bastard ’ .
4 The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders .
5 And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death .
6 Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ?
7 This is the game … this is the goal the Swindon fans will treasure for ever … their first win in the Premiership … it 's taken three months and sixteen games to get it …
8 The achievement has taken 17 months and covers nearly every aspect of Atlas Copco 's business including installation , service schemes , training and inspection testing .
9 The report has taken 6 months to prepare .
10 ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way .
11 The flight 's taken five months to organise , and he 'll be airborne for at least four weeks .
12 That was before his shattering injury that has taken 16 months off his career .
13 PBL from sequential samples ( 2–7 ) taken 1–15 months later also secreted antibodies. 12 patients had serum IFAT titres below 300 IU/mL , 5 had stable antibody titres between 300 and 10,000 IU/mL , and 2 without signs or symptoms of toxoplasmic encephalitis had high and constant concentrations ( 19,200 IU/mL and 40,960 IU/mL ) of IgG antibodies with the presence of IgA .
14 The tunnel had taken several months to build and some of the accusations which had been made against these same people now looked rather silly .
15 It seems to have taken several months for the message to sink in that here was plenty to worry about , with deep implications for the inhabitants of planet Earth .
16 It has taken several months of cajoling to persuade the enigmatic political advisor Philip Gould to give an interview .
17 The decision in Cabinet ( Conseil Restreint sur l'Espace ) in November 1972 to develop the rocket launcher that would subsequently become Ariane was taken several months before the then European space body ( the CSE : July 1973 ) gave its go-ahead .
18 However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma .
19 Suppose that the misdirected letter of acceptance had taken two months on its way , or had never arrived .
20 However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said .
21 Action might have been taken two months ago .
22 It all left yesterday 's would-be refugees furious at the latest delay in an evacuation that has taken two months to negotiate .
23 The in-depth report by Philip Mackie , epidemiologist with Darlington Health Authority , has taken seven months to complete and reveals head injuries and poisoning among the most common type of childhood accident .
24 The report has taken 20 months .
25 A decision on that will be taken next month .
26 But he was taken last month to Bill Wightman 's gallops on the lovely downland on which the great Halloween was trained .
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