Example sentences of "five months ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reserves in 1986/87 were £2.8m , or five months ' operating expenditure . |
| 2 | The product of five months ' work by a specially elected Constituent Assembly [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ; 38283 ] , it was hailed on all sides as marking the opening of a new democratic chapter in the country 's history , previously marred by decades of political and drug-related violence and the domination of power by a small political elite . |
| 3 | Kenneth Baker , once more , who refused to resign after two armed IRA prisoners escaped from Brixton prison , even though the police had given the prison authorities five months ' warning . |
| 4 | The political consequence of the decision is that the EC Industry Commissioner and the EC Transport Commissioner have suggested to the Commission President that , in future , the Competition Directorate should obtain the approval of the relevant industrial policy department of the Commission before submitting a merger to the full five months ' scrutiny allowed under the Regulation . |
| 5 | But top London store John Lewis finally lost patience after the company doctor said he needed another five months ' rest . |
| 6 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 7 | The principal reason is that the Government will be defeated in four or five months ' time and be replaced by a Labour Government who will take the Bill off the statute book as soon as they come to power . |
| 8 | Rear seat belts , alloy wheels , tow bars , eleven months M O T , five months ' tax . |