Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] month in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 2 | But he was surpassed both in Italianism and in quality of invention by another Nuremberg composer , Hassler ( 1564–1612 ) , who studied for fifteen months in Venice ( 1584–5 ) . |
| 3 | The sick flocked to him , and in 1666 he toured England , staying for several months in Lincoln 's Inn Fields , where he treated a great number of sufferers with varying success . |
| 4 | The second thing I did n't know , she er , she worked eighteen , she worked for eighteen months in London , arrived there for a holiday , and er , from being eighteen , so sh , this now will explain why she 's quite mature as I said she 's still very young , and that . |
| 5 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 6 | Japan , too , is highlighted as part of the huge Japan Festival which is running for three months in Northern Ireland and throughout Britain — but , yes , it was another coincidence that Scottish Opera chose to offer us Madama Butterfly ! |
| 7 | It is made with ewes ' milk and is left to ripen for three months in limestone caves . |
| 8 | After stopping for several months in Toulouse , they arrived in Paris in February 1904 ; she was never to leave . |
| 9 | Mr Johnson was jailed for nine months in July after pleading guilty to administering poison to his daughters Samantha , seven , and Leanne , five , and assaulting his wife . |
| 10 | A London born terrorist has today been jailed for six months in Amsterdam on arms offences . |
| 11 | Abe Nathan , Middle East peace campaigner , jailed for six months in Israel for meeting Yasser Arafat The existence of the Socialist German Democratic Republic is good fortune for our people , and for the peoples of Europe . |
| 12 | A demonstration is planned for next month in Glasgow to rally public support for the Albion workforce . |
| 13 | However , the higher ground in Scotland and Wales is usually snow covered for several months in winter . |
| 14 | It was announced on June 8 that the parliamentary term due to end on June 9 was being extended for 12 months in view of the " war situation " . |
| 15 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |