Example sentences of "[num] months [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grazing , in any meaningful sense , is limited to the growing season — at best about eight months of the year . |
| 2 | During the football season ( eight months of the year ! ) the early turn men parade at 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. , return for a few hours , then re-parade 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. , and sometimes have to go on duty at 6 a.m. the following morning . |
| 3 | In the last eight months of the marriage , he could n't control his temper . |
| 4 | Attendance at the course at the Inns of Court School of Law , including the practical exercises , is compulsory for those who intend to practise in England and Wales ; so including living expenses in London and books the law graduate can reckon on expenses of at least £2,300 for the eight months of the course , with another £180 for robe and wig . |
| 5 | Powers were divided between the Congress of People 's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet , but it was the Supreme Soviet that met and conducted business for about eight months of the year . |
| 6 | Iraq had accused the UAE , along with Kuwait , of undermining international oil prices by exceeding its agreed OPEC quota of 1,100,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , producing an average of 1,800,000 bpd in the first eight months of the year [ see p. 37631 ] . |
| 7 | Already , after only eight months of the new arrangement , I believe the management of BP 's affairs is benefiting from it . |
| 8 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 9 | and I 'll say to him , right , okay , we 'll give you the five per cent r reduction for only eight months of the year . |
| 10 | ‘ For me , being single-minded meant that for the eight months of the racing season every other aspect of my life was put on hold , ’ Vitor began , ‘ apart from the construction company . |
| 11 | In the first eight months of the year they were 36pc above the same period in 1992 . |
| 12 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 13 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 14 | One night , miners hit a 60-metre lens of water beneath London 's Pimlico , an unlucky strike which added eight months to the operation . |
| 15 | It is customarily assumed that the five years and eight months between the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in September 1939 and the final collapse of that power in May 1945 was an epoch of ever-increasing radicalism , both for the British electorate and for the Labour Party itself . |
| 16 | Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Don Giovanni received its first performance in February 1787 during the Venice Carnival , a mere eight months before the Prague première of Mozart 's version . |
| 17 | Another , eight months before the murder , reads : ‘ I wish Alison could just disappear as if she never existed ’ . |
| 18 | Thus for a bond issued on 1 January , 1990 , the base for indexing would be given by the level of the RPI in April , 1989 ; the uplift for capital value in January of each subsequent year would depend on the change in the RPI to April of the preceding year and all sums paid in interest would depend on the level of the RPI eight months before the payment date . |
| 19 | Applications from Centres seeking HCIMA approval to offer programmes of study leading to the Association 's Professional Certificate and/or Professional Diploma , must be submitted to HCIMA at least eight months before the date on which it is proposed to start the programme . |
| 20 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 21 | A rechargeable battery protects the stored programme data for up to eight months in the event of the programmer being unplugged . |
| 22 | The preference for polling has increased from about 50 per cent 60 years ago to about 95 per cent today , presumably by selection to suit management systems in which the cattle are housed for as much as eight months in the winter . |
| 23 | The enthusiasm he first showed is visibly more jaded now but that 's not surprising after eight months in the spotlight . |
| 24 | The man receives the common weekly wages of 7s eight months in the year , and by task work the remaining four months about 1s weekly more . |
| 25 | Russian workers from Uzbekistan pour concrete and fit window frames but eight months after the earthquake , not one was ready to be handed over for use . |
| 26 | This potential danger became apparent with the emergence eight months after the beginning of the Uprising of a new group , the Islamic Resistance Movement , better known by its acronym , Hamas ( zeal ) . |
| 27 | Some eight months after the accident , she could balance . |
| 28 | Part 1 of Birds of Australia , containing 17 plates , was scheduled for publication on 1 December , less than four-and-a-half months after the Gould 's return to England . |
| 29 | That was the cost of borrowing £5,000 over 180 months for the first year ; after that it was £100.77 a month . |
| 30 | One should attempt to avoid the situation where your own surgeon is instructed to prepare an initial Report some 12–24 months after the accident or as has been seen in some cases , up to four years after an accident . |