Example sentences of "for [adj] months [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR six months Sarah Monelle had stayed at home with her cherished baby son . |
| 2 | For six months Pakistan 's governments have been preoccupied with intrigue , and it may be that their carefree attitude to running the country is beginning to show up in the figures . |
| 3 | For three months Jeanne kept her love for Modigliani a secret from her family , went to Mass and appeared gentle and dutiful , if somewhat abstracted . |
| 4 | For three months Mrs Reich nursed Holly back to health at her parents ' home in Dagenham , Essex . |
| 5 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 6 | Great brier hedges grew up around the Palace , and for many months Ireland had no ruler . ’ |
| 7 | Whatever the reason for the sharing of the horse , the two men kept their transaction-secret and for many months Kilpatrick was thought to be still the sole owner . |
| 8 | Twice a week for four months Dave would contact the police waiting for news of the court case . |
| 9 | For two months Alison was a counsellor looking after American children at a camp in Pennsylvania , after which she was free to travel around for a month . |
| 10 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 11 | For eighteen months Steel-Maitland worked with Law at the Colonial Office , a useful liaison that kept the leader and Chairman in close touch . |
| 12 | These efforts came to a head in 1965 , when for seven months France boycotted the EEC Commission and Council of Ministers and thereby precipitated one of the gravest crises in the Community 's history . |