Example sentences of "[num] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delay rather than a deviant pattern to language development is reported and 3-year-olds have been found to be 5–8 months behind in their language norms ( Jerger et al . |
| 2 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 3 | This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone . |
| 4 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 5 | By about eight months of age most infants are capable of retrieving completely hidden objects ; but between eight and twelve months they show another intriguing pattern of errors . |
| 6 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 7 | The museum believes that the fundraising will take about eight months . |
| 8 | Eight months later , in May 1989 , Mr Ethrington joined the management buyout team , which had been formed a year earlier . |
| 9 | Eight months later , GM completed a merger with the computer services company Electronic Data Systems in a bid to improve computer services throughout the GM empire . |
| 10 | ‘ After eight months , I recently won an admission from the BMA that our proposals in the White Paper would not and could not cause any doctor to have to refuse any patient medicines which that patient would need . |
| 11 | EIGHT months ago the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed a happy media parable of modern Britain . |
| 12 | In the course of eight months 20 per cent of all horses in the country had been killed . |
| 13 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 14 | After eight months the Chinese said we were going to be tried , but one month before the trial we were released . |
| 15 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 16 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough 's goalkeeper Stephen Pears is back in light training after eight months out through injury and illness . |
| 18 | Doctors need to retrain for eight months . |
| 19 | Russian workers from Uzbekistan pour concrete and fit window frames but eight months after the earthquake , not one was ready to be handed over for use . |
| 20 | Mrs Lock , of Formby , Merseyside , said the driver , who was jailed for two years , served eight months . |
| 21 | ‘ But what is eight months ? |
| 22 | The project faces up to eight months of discussions between Boeing and its customers to finalise design details of the plane . |
| 23 | Eight months later , Mr Honecker was chased from office and in disgrace . |
| 24 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 25 | Pat Cash , out for eight months with an Achilles tendon injury , could make his comeback in the doubles at the Australian Open in Melbourne next month . |
| 26 | This time round , other things being equal , that indicator suggests the second-shortest recession since the second world war : that is , between six and eight months . |
| 27 | But for the first time in his eight months in office , Mr Kaifu now has a chance of pulling off a coup big enough to ensure his survival as prime minister . |
| 28 | Several have been kept alive for up to eight months . |
| 29 | Another eight months was devoted to working out the spacing between characters . |
| 30 | Then after eight months the strike collapsed in Nottinghamshire . |