Example sentences of "[prep] [det] months the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some months the engineers tried to obstruct and by-pass Smith , until Hacking told them firmly that there must be a considerable change of heart by all concerned to work together . |
| 2 | But tempers cooled and after some months the City Corporation decided to sell the building on the basis of a planning brief almost identical to SAVE 's proposals . |
| 3 | After a period of development of several months the larvae moult to L5 and return to the intestinal wall via the arterial lumina . |
| 4 | During these months the messages conveyed by coinage became very simple and explicit . |
| 5 | During these months the main concern of Aung San was the future of his BNA : Mountbatten announced that all the men considered suitable would be enlisted in a newly-raised army on British lines . |
| 6 | The bomb that killed President Muawad appeared to have defeated or at least set back for many months the Arab initiative spearheaded by Morocco , Algeria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | For many months the federal government seemed to be wavering . |
| 8 | During those months the matrimonial home was sold . |
| 9 | The news was a body blow and for several months the company was on a knife edge . |
| 10 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 11 | The other scandal is the doctrinaire attitude of Labour-controlled councils such as Plymouth city council which , when Labour took control in May this year , halted for several months the previous Conservative policy of selling land to housing associations at concessionary prices , enabling rents to be kept down and output to be increased . |
| 12 | But West Germany , always cautious about monetary union , has shrugged aside attempts by the Italians to bring forward by several months the start of the inter-governmental conference that will discuss the road to EMU . |