Example sentences of "[prep] [num] months [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After six months Miloš made a ceremonial entry into Belgrade to parley with the newly appointed Turkish governor , Marasli , who had been given a mandate by the sultan to make concessions in order to pacify the Serbs . |
| 2 | The immediate result of George 's absence was the loss of his advice regarding the wine list , about which Olive knew little , and after three months Marie found it necessary to engage a specialist wine waiter . |
| 3 | After fifteen months Edward left St. Paul 's on the tacit understanding that he would read at home for the competitive administration examinations of the Civil Service . |
| 4 | After four months Alderman Joshua Smith , president of Southwark Borough Council , secured her release from prison — but not of course from the rest of her debts . |
| 5 | After two months Esther was allowed home for weekend , so she was able to join in her normal family life , particularly celebrating the Sabbath . |
| 6 | FOR six months Sarah Monelle had stayed at home with her cherished baby son . |
| 7 | For six months Pakistan 's governments have been preoccupied with intrigue , and it may be that their carefree attitude to running the country is beginning to show up in the figures . |
| 8 | Over a period of 4 months Gary received scripture verses , most noticeably Psalm 37:4–7 , which seemed to confirm that God wanted Gary to become involved with YWAM . |
| 9 | So in the space of 5½ months South Africa will play 27 matches , including seven Tests . |
| 10 | For three months Jeanne kept her love for Modigliani a secret from her family , went to Mass and appeared gentle and dutiful , if somewhat abstracted . |
| 11 | For three months Mrs Reich nursed Holly back to health at her parents ' home in Dagenham , Essex . |
| 12 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 13 | For the first time in eight months Patrick felt one hundred per cent fit . |
| 14 | The partnership was not a success , however , and within six months Milburn took it over and amalgamated with Nathan and Sommers . |
| 15 | But within six months John was spotted by a Luton talent scout while playing in a county schools match and moved south to Kenilworth Road . |
| 16 | They arrived in Liverpool after an uneventful railway journey and for the second time in three months Cam walked along the dock wall looking for the Langdale ; but now there was confidence in his stride and eagerness in his face . |
| 17 | Within three months Eva was champing at the bit . |
| 18 | He did n't score , but too often we saddle our better strikers with ridiculous demands — as Mark Hughes knows only too well — and in any case with 20 on the board in four months Shearer is well placed to double his career record by the end of the season . |
| 19 | WITHIN two months Connors Chemists Ltd has completed the rebuilding of its Newtownards store , which was devastated in the bomb attack in the town in July . |
| 20 | Within eighteen months McCartney was in court dissolving his connection to Apple and the other Beatles . |
| 21 | In two months Sussex saw 103 separate incidents , two-thirds of them in the eastern half where the restrictive paternalism of the great landowners was less pervasive than in the west . |
| 22 | Within four months Sir Edmond had received a writ under the privy seal for the working of gold and silver for the new king ; in the following year he , his nephew John Shaa , and his friend Sir Reginald Bray were granted possession of a large estate in Essex , augmenting earlier acquisitions . |
| 23 | In seven months Skipper , the four-year-old whose progress we have been following , has learned an awful lot . |
| 24 | ( What hand or eye , we may well ask , could afford to gestate such a thing for the six to nine months Shakespeare usually took to write a play ? |
| 25 | Twice a week for four months Dave would contact the police waiting for news of the court case . |
| 26 | For two months Alison was a counsellor looking after American children at a camp in Pennsylvania , after which she was free to travel around for a month . |
| 27 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 28 | For eighteen months Steel-Maitland worked with Law at the Colonial Office , a useful liaison that kept the leader and Chairman in close touch . |
| 29 | These efforts came to a head in 1965 , when for seven months France boycotted the EEC Commission and Council of Ministers and thereby precipitated one of the gravest crises in the Community 's history . |