Example sentences of "of the [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the six months , Edouard 's old resolve grew fiercer : he would restore that empire to its former glory , and then he would develop it , increase it , expand it . |
| 2 | It could be done : gradually , in the second half of the six months , he grew in confidence . |
| 3 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 4 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 5 | At the end of the six months , he had introduced £1,811,996 of ‘ new ’ money to the Royal Bank and achieved 141.25 per cent of target . |
| 6 | March turned out to be the best of the six months with £5,438,860 of ‘ new money ’ being introduced . |
| 7 | On the basis of the information above , calculate what the brothers ' wealth was at the start and end of the six months and what profit had been made . |
| 8 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 9 | Before the end of the six months was up the other judges were trying to steal the devices and put their own people on it . |
| 10 | Even when the collective paranoia of the early months of 1940 subsided , this attitude prevailed . |
| 11 | The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . |
| 12 | Later , those who were to piece together the events at the camp of the early months of that year , from the time of snow till the approach of spring , were to wonder what was the ambition of Michael Holly , prisoner of Hut 2 in Zone I of Camp 3 in the Dubrovlag complex . |
| 13 | After the influenza of the early months , he contracted further feverish colds , with attendant bronchial trouble , right up to the early summer . |
| 14 | The adhesion of Seville , the virtual capital of the early months and now strong in the victory of Bailén , was decisive . |
| 15 | ‘ Business started to improve again in November and February was one of the best months ever . |
| 16 | June is one of the best months for badger-watching . |
| 17 | Then there is an inner half-circle of local people going about their medieval business , catching and smoking the salmon of which the Gave d'Oloron was once notably full , hunting wild boar , making cheese , and so on , a different activity for each of the twelve months of the year . |
| 18 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 19 | Er three months and at six months and then again at sort of the twelve months time |
| 20 | In order to protect my interests , I 've included a clause that states that , unless you produce suitable , usable designs , the debt , alas , will remain outstanding and will be required to be repaid in full at the end of the eighteen months . ’ |
| 21 | IF IT were n't for the presence of two eclipses , December would be one of the better months of the year . |
| 22 | Of course , these reports were as biased towards optimism as the nervous hosts of September 1939 were biased towards pessimism ; and in the later waves great care was taken by teachers , medical officers and even parents not to repeat the mistakes of the first months of the war . |
| 23 | If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority . |
| 24 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 25 | But with only 15 per cent of normal rainfall in January , usually one of the wettest months , and the rainy season drawing to a close , they are desperately short of water . |
| 26 | And whilst some villagers are a little cautious about one of the wettest months for some time . |
| 27 | Mr Roberts 's narrative account of the crucial months grips and convinces . |
| 28 | My mother , not believing in idleness and thinking of the long months that lay ahead of me , decided I should learn embroidery . |
| 29 | JANUARY 1993 will be remembered as one of the stormiest months in living memory . |
| 30 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |