Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] months they " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three months they would be entitled to the statutory minimum wage in Germany , but this would still be less than the wages taken home by Germans working on the same site . |
| 2 | After 18 months they moved again , this time to Sheffield and after two or three years with Harold Jackson & Co she showed her individuality and confidence by striking out on her own and ‘ putting up a plate ’ . |
| 3 | After many months they let me free . |
| 4 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 5 | You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income . |
| 6 | ‘ After four months they closed down owing us £3,500 , ’ says Shabira . |
| 7 | For six months they received no letters , cards or phone calls from other members of their family or from friends . |
| 8 | At the end of six months they had sold 300 of the 400 beds for £150 each . |
| 9 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 10 | Within six months they were married , and the four Sixers of the 2nd Longreen Pack were Brown Owl 's bridesmaids , and all the Pack , including Mandy Maddison , attended the wedding . |
| 11 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 12 | After the First World War some Kerries were exported to France to help repopulate areas which had been decimated by war and the small black cattle were given prime grazing in orchard meadows near the River Somme ; within nine months they looked like beef animals ! |
| 13 | Within twelve months they had bought an old but clean and respectable grocery van to take around the roads of the South London suburbs . |
| 14 | In recent months they have begun to tear loose from this platform . |
| 15 | In recent months they have even hinted at getting the Russians — who supply much of Ukraine 's oil dirt-cheap — to raise economic barriers that would force it to give way . |
| 16 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 17 | In addition , large numbers of drifter buoys were launched into the ocean off Peru and for several months they were tracked via the Argos satellite as they drifted with the surface currents . |
| 18 | For two months they have been relegated to their school 's library , forbidden to attend classes or take part in any school activity . |
| 19 | At four months they are encouraged to follow their mother on her nightly hunt , though she makes them stay still and hidden during the final stalk to avoid spooking the prey . |