Example sentences of "a good [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good six months before they had to meet again , this time in the Texaco Trophy matches in England . |
| 2 | Young stallions who have never served a mare may settle down after castration , but a good six months may be needed to allow for the hormones to leave their system . |
| 3 | They are rather slow-growing and usually take a good six months to reach 1″ . |
| 4 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 5 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 6 | I think we owe it to people like or at least to give them another crack at the whip to see if they 've come on in that interim period cos it 's a good six months since we interviewed |
| 7 | We 'ad 'im a good six months , ai n't we ? |
| 8 | Even if Mr Major really means it and he does n't intend to do a Nigel Lawson , a sort of nineteen eighty seven trick , er surely he can almost hardly help himself , because the pound and shares are doing very well at the moment ; we 're told by the economists that there 's a good six months of honeymoon period , er and people feel a great pent up demand , people have a great pent up demand , which is now being released . |
| 9 | ‘ That first record was finally released a good 18 months later than it should have been , ’ said the source . |
| 10 | Must ‘ ave been a good nine months back , not that long after you left for the front , come to think of it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ As you all know , we billed £400,000 for our success fee to Regina Securities a good eleven months ago — they were one of Richard 's clients . ’ |
| 12 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
| 13 | If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve . |
| 14 | It will be a good few months — possibly more like a year — before Windows NT , the operating system with a Window face , comes along . |
| 15 | There 's a good few months ’ work , if i 'm any judge . ’ |
| 16 | There ya go Mark , that should give you enough ammo for a good few months yet : - ) ) |
| 17 | Despite being hit by the recession slightly later than their auditing colleagues , the recruitment market for general taxation specialists has now been stagnant for a good 12 months . |
| 18 | It 'll be a good three months before she shows , and , with skilful dressing , she could go on a lot longer . ’ |