Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February last year , the borrowing requirement was only £855 million , and the cumulative total , £7.4 billion , before rising to £6.4 billion in the final month and £13.8 billion for the full year . |
| 2 | The fast is for ‘ a certain number of days ’ in the ninth month of the Islamic year , the month in which the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Mohamed . |
| 3 | In a communiqué broadcast on Jan. 17 the leaders of the Medellín and Cali drug cartels , under their assumed name of the " Extraditables " , announced that they accepted the " victory " of the government of President Barco in the five month " war " waged between them [ see p. 36844 ; 36889-90 ; 37119 ] and would end their hostilities , release their hostages , cease drug shipments and surrender weapons and explosives , in return for constitutional and legal guarantees which would respect their rights and allow them to return to their families and communities . |
| 4 | Eventually , when they were in Canada , in the fifth month of the picture , Dustin got friendly with an Oriental man who claimed to be 104 years old . |
| 5 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |
| 6 | Furthermore , none of the rats developed colonic neoplastic changes in the 18 month period . |
| 7 | In his comprehensive Apples Of England , Dr Taylor states that ‘ In England this variety only reaches full maturity in years of hot summers , ’ and goes on to say that ‘ Indeed , November- December-picked Sturmers are the best , ’ and , with a basket-full of fine specimens picked for the first time ever in the latter month , I agree . |
| 8 | This contract is deliverable on the first business day after the third Wednesday in the relevant month ( that is , usually about the 19th ) . |
| 9 | In a year of minimum rainfall only 17% of the total falls as rain in the 5 month period June to October . |
| 10 | In the glorious month of July , foxgloves and a galaxy of other wild flowers show their colours in woodland and meadow , spilling over into cottage gardens , creating a rich mosaic of pattern and colour . |
| 11 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 12 | Two of the three major annual pilgrim festivals lasted for seven days each , one of them , the Feast of Booths , taking place in the seventh month of the year . |
| 13 | But when Eileen was in the seventh month , Mrs Blanche Arbuthnot came to Riverstown on her way to stay with friends in Limerick . |
| 14 | The Feast of Trumpets : first of three festivals in the seventh month ( September/October ) ; the others being |
| 15 | In the seventh month of pregnancy , Alison Walker needed to be reassured that in the event of her baby 's premature arrival , she would be in good hands . |
| 16 | Around two-thirds of consumers polled had shopped on a Sunday in the preceding month , doing on average 5% of their weekly shopping on the sabbath . |
| 17 | ( 1977 ) found that only one-third of respondents in a large survey of transport availability in Norfolk had used a bus or train in the preceding month . |
| 18 | The Sri Lankan army claimed on Aug. 12 to have killed 2,552 Tamil separatist fighters in the preceding month . |
| 19 | Class boycotts and demonstrations in the preceding month had frequently degenerated into violence as students clashed with the police . |
| 20 | ( CBS/Fox over her anticipated selling over 70,000 copies of the video in the first month alone . ) |
| 21 | ‘ Foreigners get poorer and poorer , those that are left — and there are hardly any left ’ , she wrote in the first month of the war . |
| 22 | Lotus Development Corp says it has sold more than 125,000 units worldwide of its new dynamic spreadsheet , Improv for Windows , in the first month since it became available in retail outlets : Improve is being offered at $100 until May 31 . |
| 23 | Compaq Computer Corp says it shipped more 80486SL-based Compaq Conturas in the first month of the product 's availability than any other portable in Compaq 's history . |
| 24 | Such competition effects normally occur in both half-fields in the first month of life , but significantly reduce by 3 months , a change linked to cortically mediated attentional mechanisms . |
| 25 | We find that in the first month or so after the eruption , the large amount of SO 2 injected into the tropical atmosphere catalyses mid-stratospheric ozone production . |
| 26 | In the first month after full term these slow wave bursts increase in length until the low voltage periods of quiet sleep are entirely displaced . " |
| 27 | In the first month of the new junta , 131 workers were reported killed as the military hardliners in government sought to clamp down op the unions . |
| 28 | From continually chasing my tail in the first month and being late for everything , and always being in trouble in varying degrees , punctuality became second nature . |
| 29 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 30 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |