Example sentences of "but after [adj] months " in BNC.

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1 But after 18 months of the infant formula code , WHO executive chairman Maureen Law wonders if all the fuss was worth it .
2 She says she was mentally and physically abused by her boyfriend , but after 10 months at the hostel with her 2 young sons she 's starting to turn her life around .
3 I offered the booklet to GHQ , Simla , but after two months had had no reply .
4 At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women .
5 But after two months and $4000 and still nothing to show for it , he was getting a little hacked off at Condor Television .
6 Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes .
7 I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation .
8 Inevitably , I saw the prison through the eyes of a western visitor , but after three months in India I had acquired at least a superficial understanding of the country and its penal philosophy .
9 But after three months hard work , publicity and campaigning there remained only a small core of about 30 people regularly using the club .
10 Of course we tried to keep things going — after all , we knew , vaguely , how much we needed that place , needed our evenings there together , but after seven months of enthusiasm and mismanagement The Bar closed .
11 But after seven months of debate , the proposal was scrapped .
12 Gordon Beck , spokesman for the Anthony Nolan Research Centre , said : ‘ The relationship between donor and patient is confidential but after 12 months we allow correspondence and we pass on messages from both sides .
13 When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input .
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