Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [det] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles followed his advance band rapidly , and laid siege to Pavia for several months . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
| 3 | Having already written for the NME for several months as the transvestite sex-poet Susan Williams I was nervous , a straw sucker acting brash in a den of sophisticates . |
| 4 | I had n't seen Malc for some months . |
| 5 | James Jeffrey , 50 , Charles Smith , also 50 , and Kevin Thorn , 33 , were arrested in November , 1990 , after anti-drug squad officers had kept them under surveillance in the Spanish capital and on the Costa del Sol for several months . |
| 6 | Foreign Minister Ali Alatas on Oct. 11 echoed criticisms levelled at Western countries by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed at an ASEAN meeting on Oct. 7 , over their failure to provide assistance in coping with large-scale fires under way in Indonesia for several months . |
| 7 | Some 45 relief workers were the only foreigners remaining in the city , and the UN had had no representation in Mogadishu for some months . |
| 8 | Odessa has a visa allowing her to stay in England for several months . |
| 9 | When he was seventeen he returned to China for several months . |
| 10 | We were planning a visit to Hong Kong for several months , as Michael was to be a visiting professor in the University there . |
| 11 | But not long after this happy event Fergie became depressed that Andrew would be away in Australia for some months and that she and her baby were being ‘ abandoned ’ . |
| 12 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
| 13 | For example , a business in the United States may wish to assign an engineer to work in Japan for some months . |
| 14 | In July 1616 , on the embassy of James , Lord Hay ( later first Earl of Carlisle , q.v. ) in marriage negotiations between Princess Christina and Prince Charles , he suffered a serious accidental fall which left him in France for some months after the embassy . |
| 15 | But it may be that the way forward is to look at secondment ( from the Dublin office has been seconded to Sri Lanka for several months . |
| 16 | Montage and Mirus have both been promising their versions of PostScript for many months and there is even a version of Freedom of the Press , a software PostScript interpreter , that will drive Matrix and Montage film recorders . |
| 17 | ‘ No , there 's this beautiful Leningrad actress who went to Rome for several months . |
| 18 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 19 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 20 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |