Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [num] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon afterwards , Brian , in the middle of his national Service , was sent to Germany for six months . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1904 Alf returned to Roker Park for a club record fee of £520 ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) , but he only stayed at Sunderland for seven months . |
| 3 | As a spotty student , I worked in a large hotel in Fort William for four months , and grew extremely fond of it . |
| 4 | I also suggested that he go and live in San Francisco for six months , where he might see for himself and in practice the ideal which Jesus Christ was talking about , which is far removed from anything the Church of England ever practises in this country . |
| 5 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 6 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
| 7 | In this study , we have fed rats diets containing 133 g/kg non-starch polysaccharides ( NSP ) or 17 g/kg NSP for 18 months , equivalent to lifelong ingestion in man , and have measured both cellular proliferation and colonc SCFA . |
| 8 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 9 | The big studios boycotted Manhattan for seven months last year , months of wonderful peace . |
| 10 | I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days ! |
| 11 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 12 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 13 | " Already " , complained The Seaman after six months of fighting , " the poor people of this country are beginning to feel the effects of the greedy shipowners ' demands . |
| 14 | His other neighbour 's child-bride kissed her boy hero each morning , in her floating web dressing gown , as if he were going to the Falklands for three months . |
| 15 | So they took me into care and put me in an assessment centre in Sydenham Hill for six months . |
| 16 | He stayed in Brussels for six months . |
| 17 | Tyndale was held as a prisoner in the castle of Vilforde near Brussels for sixteen months . |
| 18 | Mr Stillings , 59 , had been Rector of Trefnant for 18 months and had formerly been curate at Rhosymedre and Minera , Vicar of Bagillt and Rector of Llanfynydd . |
| 19 | She 'd been in the States for nine months now , and was getting to feel like a native . |
| 20 | Erm , he gave his job up when he was twenty two years old to tour the States for six months . |
| 21 | Judge Angus Macdonald sentenced Diaz to 18 months in a young offenders institution and Walker to 12 months . |
| 22 | He 'd been a boarder himself — last year when his parents went to the States on three months ’ sabbatical . |
| 23 | But erm so being in hospital two years and then I was in St Giles for eighteen months , which is like Stoke Mandeville |
| 24 | Already , even before the move , Herbert was ‘ going his own way ’ , and there had been a period of separation the previous year when Grace took the children to stay in Cape Town for six months or more . |
| 25 | Captured by the Japanese in 1941 , David was interned in Shanghai for nine months , and contracted the sclerosis which caused him difficult last years and finally ended his life . |
| 26 | I 'll be away from England for six months . ’ |
| 27 | He had lived in Normandy for seven months , he had learned the French language and come to love the French countryside , yet now , just as if he had never met Lucille , he spoke of the french as a hated enemy . |
| 28 | Mozart returned to Salzburg for four months . |
| 29 | Income from the main revenue earning project , the Enterprise and Education Initiative , also rose slightly and the project has been extended by the Industry Department for Scotland for seven months to 31st March 1991 . |
| 30 | I was engaged to Simon for six months and a virgin when I married . ’ |