Example sentences of "for [art] previous [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following year , as already noted , the cost of living rose by 120 per cent ( average for the year ) , and by the end of the year the rate of increase for the previous twelve months had reached 170 per cent . |
| 2 | Not all problems have gone away of course : yesterday 's £6.4 billion public sector borrowing requirement is not much higher than expectations , but it is almost as large as the deficit for the previous 11 months and — with this year 's deficit forecast to be double last year 's — shows why the Bank of England so eagerly sold £2 billion or more of gilts on election night and why it needs a regular stream of massive sales . |
| 3 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 4 | It will be noted that the children had already been effectively in care on a voluntary basis for the previous six months . |
| 5 | The total was more than the combined figures for the previous two months . |
| 6 | It was certainly a surprise to Watney 's , which for the previous four months had been planning its own takeover bid for Truman 's , so that it could close the high-cost Mann 's site . |
| 7 | Earlier , police in Pretoria had on Sept. 17 arrested Piet ( " Skiet " ) Rudolph , deputy leader of the far-right Boerestaat party , who had been wanted for the previous four months in connection with bombings and arms thefts . |
| 8 | Although Lineker has just turned 32 , he quit the English game last summer — having made his intention clear for the previous seven months . |
| 9 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 10 | In January rampaging inflation ( 70% in that month alone , on top of a rate for the previous 12 months estimated at 700–900% ) and a tight wage squeeze produced a 40% drop in the average Pole 's standard of living . |
| 11 | Figures in the annual report show his total package of £3,290,474 for the year to the end of March , compared with £653,886 for the previous 12 months , which included relocation expenses and an annual bonus of £69,160 . |
| 12 | A spokesman for North Wales Police said it was at least heartening to note that the rate of increase of vehicle crime up to June this year was less than for the previous 12 months . |