Example sentences of "within [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of a preference , it makes payments made within the six months preceding the bankruptcy recoverable if they were made by the debtor under the influence of a desire to better the creditor ( see Re Ledingham-Smith [ 1992 ] Vol 5 Insolvency Intelligence 65 ) . |
| 2 | Furthermore , if the purchaser is a public company , whether or not its shares are quoted , it is prevented by CA 1985 , s102 from allotting the consideration shares to the vendor unless the consideration for the allotment has been independently valued pursuant to CA 1985 , s108 and a report regarding the value has been made to the purchaser by an independent person within the six months preceding the allotment . |
| 3 | Well I think most of them will be within the two months of the wedding but there 'll be enquiries now perhaps for a wedding at Christmas or even next spring . |
| 4 | Any patients who had taken antibiotics within the three months before entering the study , or other medication likely to affect bile acid metabolism , were also excluded . |
| 5 | One can all too easily imagine a situation in which , within a few months , Poland will have the worst of all worlds : hyper-inflation and acute shortages and high unemployment , all at the same time . |
| 6 | Within a few months , every plank of his excessively clever platform collapsed . |
| 7 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 8 | While Cameroun 's economic activity returned to normal within a few months , the experience of the three attempted coups , and particularly of the last , undermined the sense of renewal which Paul Biya 's elevation to the presidency had achieved . |
| 9 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 10 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 11 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 12 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 13 | Within a few months , similar statements were being made by the king , Stanley Baldwin , Ramsay MacDonald , Ernest Bevin , and a whole host of trade unionists . |
| 14 | Within a few months , in late 1954 , the Senate censured him and although Nixon , his loyal backer in the past , considerately struck out the word Censure from the resolution , which condemned him for conduct unbecoming to the Senate , he was finished in Washington . |
| 15 | As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle . |
| 16 | Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 . |
| 17 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 18 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 19 | We lived in a house at the end of an eighteenth-century mews , and my son Simon was born in November 1959 , within a few months of our moving to Windsor . |
| 20 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |
| 21 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 22 | Within a few months of reaching its greatest height , nothing remained of it but a heap of rubble . |
| 23 | The possibility of a title going ‘ out of print ’ if selection decisions are delayed must also be considered — though this is unlikely if orders are placed within a few months of publication . |
| 24 | Within a few months of arriving in Blackpool , Luff announced his five year plan to transform the Undertaking , changed the livery to ivory and green , and introduced a streamlined tramcar as the prototype of a new fleet ( see p. 65 ) . |
| 25 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 26 | Within a few months business looked good , so well had the way been prepared for the success of our own Community Station . |
| 27 | Within a few months there were several dozen mediums offering their services . |
| 28 | During the trip to India — which , British elections permitting , should take place within a few months — Baker will emphasise government support for any satellite deals that India makes with private industry , for example , the state could provide loans to pay for the work . |
| 29 | I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months . |
| 30 | Within a few months he was teaching full-time . |