Example sentences of "[adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Aramco was told to cut production by 10 per cent and then , on top of that , shut in liftings equivalent to that which had been produced for ultimate sale to the USA in pre-embargo months , the company dutifully cut production back 23 per cent below September levels . |
| 2 | Lorestan has equipped his son , over painstaking months , with tools for the journey — maps , languages , portraits of individuals to be assimilated . |
| 3 | Together we spent many painstaking months refining the best features from all the entries into one package . |
| 4 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 5 | Two days waiting like two bloody months . |
| 6 | Yeah but he g er came here at fifteen bloody months old did n't he ? |
| 7 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 8 | my copy of the constitution that I filed away so neatly when I received that months ago . |
| 9 | Well you said that months ago |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | May and June are the driest months , together accounting for only about 10% of the annual rainfall , while more than 12% falls in December alone . |
| 12 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 13 | This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The museum believes that the fundraising will take about eight months . |
| 18 | Eight months later , in May 1989 , Mr Ethrington joined the management buyout team , which had been formed a year earlier . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | EIGHT months ago the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed a happy media parable of modern Britain . |
| 22 | In the course of eight months 20 per cent of all horses in the country had been killed . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | After eight months the Chinese said we were going to be tried , but one month before the trial we were released . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough 's goalkeeper Stephen Pears is back in light training after eight months out through injury and illness . |
| 28 | Doctors need to retrain for eight months . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mrs Lock , of Formby , Merseyside , said the driver , who was jailed for two years , served eight months . |