Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 2 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 3 | British and Canadian press responses to the Heysel Stadium tragedy are considered by Young ( 1986 ) , who notes how newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic ran the story for a whole month , dwarfing coverage of the Bangladesh cyclone which resulted in many thousands of deaths . |
| 4 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 5 | This procedure will achieve temporary relief only since collateral veins are likely to develop across the anastomosis within a few months , and will ultimately bleed . |
| 6 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 7 | Their concern follows the announcement of a twelve month gap between the opening of the northern section and the completion of the remaining route , the Wendlebury to Waterstock section , was confirmed last week . |
| 8 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 9 | I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again . |
| 10 | This young woman crossed the border with a three month old baby and her second child was born here . |
| 11 | It was the beginning of a four month ordeal as the painfully slow Turkish legal system swung into action . |
| 12 | This will be the start of a one month Scottish tour which Pam hopes will take her as far north as Nairn . |
| 13 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
| 14 | His call was made in the wake of a six month sentence imposed by a judge at Castleblayney on Gerard Smyth , 22 , of Darkley , Co Armagh . |
| 15 | These goals were achieved as follows : ( a ) the outcome of patients entered into the surveillance programme was obtained from departmental records , patient case notes , histopathology reports , doctor supervising consultant or patient by clinic , letter or telephone ; ( b ) eligible patients with ulcerative colitis were identified from index cards used to document all colitis clinic patients , and review of notes of all patients attending the clinic for a 12 month period . |
| 16 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |
| 17 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 18 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 19 | In 1939 history intervened and in the space of a few months the work of a lifetime was in ruins . |
| 20 | Now his awareness of the new pictorial possibilities which Picasso had instinctively hit upon in the Demoiselles and his study of the work of Cézanne ( whose influence , indeed , can already be sensed in the Baigneuse ) were to make him , within the space of a few months , a major force in twentieth-century painting . |
| 21 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
| 22 | It was the second suicide connected with the university in the space of a few months . |
| 23 | Where else would one be teaching black Robotic dancers , a dancer from the Stuttgart Ballet , seven pretty Chinese girls , a female weightlifter , a University oarswoman , ex-dancers , ex-aerobicists , with the rest of us , in the space of a few months . |
| 24 | Mr Loughran said last night : ‘ My girlfriend put the application in a few months ago . |
| 25 | They 'd both jacked in their jobs ( he 's a computer programmer ; she 's a physiotherapist ) and were planning to backpack round the world for a few months . |
| 26 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 27 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 28 | The only time we may ask you to make out a new schedule is , if at the end of a twelve months period , the amount owing on your Home Management Account is higher than one monthly transfer . |
| 29 | A guarantee had been made that any centre submitting all results by the end of a given month would have all candidates certificated by the end of the following month . |
| 30 | Mick Lyons has departed the scene , All Ireland captain Liam Hayes is still recovering from a broken arm , although one of the sport 's enduring personalities Colm O'Rourke has rejoined the squad after a 10 month absence . |