Example sentences of "[art] [adj] months [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It has a comprehensive index ( Figure 5.3 ) which is reissued four times a year and in the intervening months index supplements are issued . |
2 | The Leominster based Border Oak construction company — has taken on thirty two extra staff to help complete the six months contract . |
3 | Water Gypsy will be yours — exclusively — for the six months Caroline promised you . ’ |
4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number and size of community care grants in Newcastle upon Tyne in the six months April to October 1991 . |
5 | And he cheered up on hearing he could be back before the six months doctors first predicted . |
6 | There were problems aired , including the fact that nurses after training are not employed due to the cutbacks and are not allowed as a result to get the six months experience needed to get another job . |
7 | Would financial statements made up to 28 February 1993 satisfy the six months rule ? |
8 | Meanwhile , while our association welcomes the six months stay of execution for the Redmire line ( Echo , Feb 19 ) may we urge all those concerned about this issue that there is no room for complacency . |
9 | The six months Tom spent in hospital prevented his return to college . |
10 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
11 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
12 | For instance , the maximum period of imprisonment for simple theft was three years , much longer than the six months term which a police court could now impose . |
13 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |
14 | In the following months Kelantan was swept by Gulf war fervour , of the anti-American variety . |
15 | During the Munich crisis of September 1938 some rehearsals for evacuation were carried out , and in the following months arrangements were speeded up . |
16 | Mr Roberts 's narrative account of the crucial months grips and convinces . |
17 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
18 | In the three months Mrs Shephard 's been in her job Unemployment has climbed steadily . |
19 | In the three months August to October , there was a decrease in the amounts outstanding on credit agreements with consumers of £0.21bn compared with an increase of £0.17bn in the previous three months . |
20 | In the three months August to October , the amount of new credit advanced to consumers totalled £11.77bn , compared with £11.99bn in the previous three months . |
21 | Initially , the year was divided into the ten months March to December , the period midwinter to spring being left out because there was little agricultural work to be done then . |
22 | Er three months and at six months and then again at sort of the twelve months time |
23 | For the nine months January to September 1991 , net profits were Dfl 451m , down 33 per cent on the previous year , while turnover fell 7 per cent to Dfl 7260m . |
24 | In the nine months period it is hoped Ross will break even and the market is predicting the company will move into profit in 1990 . |
25 | Automatic Data Processing Inc has reported third quarter net profit up 16.0% at $92.5m on turnover up 12.4% at $612.9m ; net profit for the nine months rose 15.4% at $214.5m on turnover that rose 14.3% at $1,626.7m ; net per share rose 14% to $0.65 in the quarter , 13% at $1.52 in the nine months . |
26 | Wellfleet Communications Inc has reported third quarter net profits up 109.9% at $7.6m against a period that included a $531,000 tax credit on turnover that soared 113% at $48.0m ; net for the nine months rose 80.4% at $18.5m against a period that included a $2.8m tax credit , on turnover that rose 111.0% at $120.9m ; net per share rose 118% to $0.24 in the quarter , 73% to $0.59 in the nine months . |
27 | Net profit for the nine months rose 9.4% at $135.6m on turnover that rose 14.8% at $2,616m . |
28 | The fifteen months Eva spent at social services were all too short . |
29 | In the two months Coleman spent at Eurame , he met him there three times , including one occasion when ‘ Nazzie ’ volunteered the information that he was on his way to Houston with a load . |
30 | During the final months Baldwin handed over more and more power to Neville Chamberlain . |