Example sentences of "for [adv] a month " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted . |
| 2 | Even Mira is within range for only a month or two out of its total period of 331 days ; at minimum it sinks to magnitude 10 , so that it is lost even with a small telescope . |
| 3 | For only a month ago he had seen his eldest son and his younger daughter appoint proctors to treat in the matter of their proposed Danish marriages . |
| 4 | She had for nearly a month washed fanatically , with all the clarity and determination of which five-year-olds are capable . |
| 5 | Statajack was David 's first win for nearly a month and the big time could come with Seattle Rhyme who reappears against Derby third Silver Wizard and Jeune at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 6 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 7 | At this moment , at this precise moment , a feeling came over me that I had n't had for nearly a month . |
| 8 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 9 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 10 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 11 | He himself would be away for nearly a month : already his appointment diary for his time in the States was crammed . |
| 12 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 13 | I last visited Mexico for almost a month during May and June 1989 . |
| 14 | I refused to see my counsellor for almost a month . |
| 15 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 16 | For almost a month she had remained in the house , eating and sleeping and sitting , submitting to Lyddy 's hairbrush , practising her daily ration at the piano , performing her daily ration upon tapestry canvas , running endless little errands for Aunt Emily , trying to make her handwriting more ladylike , her movements more graceful . |
| 17 | Jenna managed for almost a month . |