Example sentences of "[verb] be [num] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |
| 2 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 3 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 4 | The maximum sentence which could have been imposed was six months . |
| 5 | The longest period I 've abstained was two-and-a-half months . |
| 6 | The correct sentence would have been nine months ' detention in a young offender institution , and that sentence would be substituted . |
| 7 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 8 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 9 | That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted . |
| 10 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 11 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 12 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 13 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 14 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 15 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |
| 16 | But that had been sixteen months ago and she was still here . |
| 17 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 18 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 19 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 20 | In those cases where no time for appealing is fixed by statute or by order of the House , the time for appealing is three months from the date the judgment of the Court of Appeal was handed down . |
| 21 | The last break I had was five months ago . |
| 22 | We have been two months in producing this very complicated set of regulations . |
| 23 | It 's been two months since Jim was seen here at his home alive on Boxing Day . |
| 24 | It 's been nineteen months since fog and the M4 combined to create an inferno of blazing cars and lorries . |
| 25 | To be honest it 's been seven months of hell . |