Example sentences of "months [adv prt] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are fascinated by it and she is picking up French fast , compensating for five months out of school . |
| 2 | Also , accounts are all very well , but even 1990 figures are going to be 12 months out of date and there is still a recession . |
| 3 | Batch processing in the case of the personnel system could in some areas lead to information being up to two months out of date . |
| 4 | That diary , for instance , seven months out of date , the lipstick she no longer wore , several letters waiting to be answered and a charity appeal leaflet … and , ah , yes , there it was . |
| 5 | The malai lieutenant , a firebrand six months out of officer training school , shouted angrily at him . |
| 6 | The eighteen months out of Trade Rule made some sense when this great nation of ours had something resembling full-time employment . |
| 7 | By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter . |
| 8 | But it does put in rather six months out of phase with the local membership so at least |
| 9 | ‘ Twill do Anne no harm to leave off the dances for a few months out of respect for her grandma , ’ Julia said . |