Example sentences of "for [adj] months [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 2 | For some months we had , at intervals , to remember the number 0661224 . |
| 3 | For some months he had been making his preparations by placing his men in key positions , so that if and when the moment came , the coup would be swift and , he hoped , bloodless . |
| 4 | Louis VI intervened on behalf of one of them , William Clito , son of Robert Curthose , and therefore a claimant also to the duchy of Normandy ; for some months it looked as though Clito would establish his right . |
| 5 | If the tool has be lying idle for some months it is likely the charge has partially drained , so it is a good idea to regularly use these tools . |
| 6 | After that for some months I was unemployed . |
| 7 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 8 | For six months they received no letters , cards or phone calls from other members of their family or from friends . |
| 9 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 10 | I mean , and she really known him for six months you know ? |
| 11 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 12 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 13 | For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children . |
| 14 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 15 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 16 | Even if the racket stays in the cupboard for six months it will still need a restring — the strings will have stretched and gone ‘ dead ’ . |
| 17 | For six months he lived in even more spartan conditions at Timbertop , in the Australian bush . |
| 18 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 19 | I do n't think so no , but you know I mean , for six months if Christopher 's living here and having to go back at the weekend , for six months he gets an allowance |
| 20 | My own ruse was to ‘ swap ’ credit cards with an equally debt-ridden friend ; for three months we had to travel halfway across London to retrieve our own card and ask ‘ permission ’ before making a purchase ! |
| 21 | For three months she went by Underground to the Wimbledon home of Elizabeth Russell where for almost as long as anyone can remember she has schooled the daughters of knights , dukes and earls in the delights of sauces , sponges and souffles . |
| 22 | For three months she was in and out of plaster as the tendons slowly heeled . |
| 23 | Theodora had followed her brief and for three months she had watched and listened . |
| 24 | For three months she 'd done nothing there , just watched the people and walked a little . |
| 25 | But , for three months he never had you know , seven days a week like , you know . |
| 26 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
| 27 | However , readers can take some comfort from the fact that for 18 months we have produced every word of a 16 page newsletter on a PC in WordPerfect , yet done all the page makeup on a Macintosh . |
| 28 | Sometimes for many months I was the only white person for hundreds of miles . |
| 29 | For many months I watched carefully for the smoke from fires , but I did n't see anything . |
| 30 | For ten months she had watched it grow , had chosen the textures and colours of her own personality in which to clothe it . |