Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] months " in BNC.
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1 | The winner must waive the normal six months ' grace afforded to a champion and defend it on a 50-50 purse basis when called upon . |
2 | The Government does not have to pay young people the paltry allowance of £29.50 per week for the normal three months between Easter and the summer leaving date . |
3 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
4 | Nothing , however , quite prepared us for the momentous last months of this decade . |
5 | During the eight short months that he lived following his resignation , he was plagued by a sense of foreboding that the future would hold a similar fate for himself . |
6 | But the huge and well publicised scandal of the intervening nine months had entailed the sacking of the Huyghes and the indictment of Lydie Huyghe for ‘ complicity in embezzling public funds ’ . |
7 | But something drastic happened in the intervening eight months . |
8 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
9 | The Uttoxeter race last month , when he was third to today 's rival Laura 's Beau , will have brought him to full racing fitness after just four runs ( two over hurdles ) in the intervening 23 months . |
10 | While he was away was the longest fifteen months and eight days I ever spent . |
11 | If borrowers want to keep on the insurance after the free 12 months , the cost is 43p a month per £1,000 of mortgage so the cost would be £12.90 a month for a £30,000 mortgage . |
12 | The alleged offences started when the girls were then aged four years , three years and the youngest 11 months . |
13 | Daniels , however , was content to spend the few short months of what remained of his life wearing Sarazen 's polo-coat in the Sandwich pubs , telling everyone how ‘ we won the Open at Prince 's ’ . |
14 | In fact , I went for the entire two months without seeing anyone . |
15 | It should be emphasised , however , that the crude rate is probably an underestmate of the true proportion of recurrent ulcers , because it assumes that patients who were withdrawn ( and therefore not followed up endoscopically for the entire 12 months ) did not develop an ulcer relapse . |
16 | ( 14 May 1778 ) In the same letter Mozart informed his father that he had unofficially been offered the post of organist at Versailles which , if he were to accept , would mean spending six months of the year in Versailles and the remaining six months wherever he liked . |
17 | ‘ Maybe now I can start out even on the remaining six months of my contract . ’ |
18 | The 37-year-old former England winger vowed he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract , saying : Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Anfield where they crashed 5-0 on Saturday . |
19 | STEVE COPPELL last night tried to stamp out speculation that he may quit Crystal Palace by vowing that he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract . |
20 | For the remaining four months ( and in some areas this may be up to seven ) grass can be fed only as hay , silage , or artificially dried grass . |
21 | The man receives the common weekly wages of 7s eight months in the year , and by task work the remaining four months about 1s weekly more . |
22 | For the remaining eight months she will continue her TV production work with FCEI , which has been a member and partner of WACC for several years . |
23 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |
24 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |
25 | Aphthoid ulcers and neoterminal ileitis develop in the early postoperative months in about 70% of patients . |
26 | The idea of a holiday in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula had developed in the preceding six months . |
27 | The CAA has ruled , as part of the single-pilot dispensation , that the flight must be made two-crew if the destination has not been visited by the commander twice within the preceding six months . |
28 | Thirdly , Gardner et al , in their case-control study of leukaemia and lymphoma diagnosed during 1950–85 among young people in West Cumbria , concluded that the excess occurred among children whose fathers had high levels of exposure to radiation before the child was conceived , and perhaps particularly in the preceding six months ; they suggested that some cases were the result of paternal germ cell mutations , and that this could explain the excess in this geographical area . |
29 | The main point of contention , according to one of the shops visited is the distinction between what is a ‘ genuine ’ sale item ( i.e. one that has been on sale in the shop at full price for not less than 28 consecutive days during the preceding six months ) and a ‘ special purchase ’ , such as a remainder or bargain book . |
30 | The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing Act 1985 ) provides that a person ( ‘ the buyer ’ ) who knowingly obtains information , directly or indirectly , from an individual ( ‘ the insider ’ ) who is or has been during the preceding six months ‘ knowingly connected ’ with the company commits a criminal offence if the buyer deals on a recognised Stock Exchange in securities of that company when the buyer : — |