Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [adj] month in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 2 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
| 3 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
| 6 | A London born terrorist has today been jailed for six months in Amsterdam on arms offences . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | A demonstration is planned for next month in Glasgow to rally public support for the Albion workforce . |
| 9 | At Pontefract yesterday Isobel Brown , who said her last permanent address was Moscow , was committed for three months in the second division for having delivered a speech at Castleford on Wednesday likely to cause disaffection . |
| 10 | The court heard that Davies was jailed for nine months in 1985 for threatening to damage by fire Department of Heath and Social Security offices . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For entering churches in Bristol ‘ to bear testimony against their formalities ’ , she was imprisoned for three months in 1654 . |
| 13 | 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 . |