Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must have learnt something about this in recent months ? ’ |
| 2 | Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm . |
| 3 | Miners blame the fall in world prices — down by almost half in 18 months , to $5,700 a tonne . |
| 4 | After the huge rise in German slaughterings and consequent drop in price at the end of last year following reunification , east Germany cut its pig herd by almost half in six months . |
| 5 | So , although we are seeking approval now , for the whole total , we will in fact pay half in six months ' time er as is normal procedure on , on our water bills . |
| 6 | Now she will have to spend another three years behind bars instead of walking free in 11 months ' time . |
| 7 | Amsterdam attendance figures were higher , at 445,000 , while for Berlin 's Gemäldegalerie , where the exhibition was the first major show to be held in a united Germany , visitors reached 330,000 in two months . |
| 8 | They make that much in twelve months ! |
| 9 | He has already shed more than 40,000 jobs and reduced the number of companies from 170 to 100 in 18 months . |
| 10 | Walter Swinburn finds it hard to believe Zilzal will ever be beaten and the son of Nureyev will attempt to extend his sequence to six out of six in next month 's Breeders ' Cup Mile in Florida . |
| 11 | Saul Bellow 's new novella , his second in six months , is a mean 100 pages . |
| 12 | Students had defied an earlier instruction from the King to end the boycott , the second in six months . |
| 13 | The 29-year-old American finished second in last month 's Stuttgart world championships . |
| 14 | The foreign exchange crisis , the country 's second in three months , stemmed from the delay in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) over a US$2,000 million standby credit [ see p. 38006 ] . |
| 15 | ‘ Your teeth 'll be straight in six months , and you can get contact lenses when your father 's insurance comes in at Christmas , grow a bosom and stun them all . ’ |
| 16 | You can stick with months , erm , you have got several choices where you have got a version number here , you do n't need any date on at all if you do n't want any date it 's just there for your information , it you are putting a date on months are fine until you start to issue two or three in one month which I would hope is unlikely erm |
| 17 | I have to admit to being somewhat partisan in this month 's column , for I am , ( or rather think I am ) a member of the BMC 's Training Committee . |
| 18 | Even though life has been tense in recent months , it 's still a strange feeling when the city you live in is transformed into a battlefield . |
| 19 | It paid £400,000 upfront for Weigang ( CI No 1,671 ) , but getting out will cost rather more : it retains £2.3m of bank and trade liabilities but will be relieved of other trade liabilities of £1m — but grants Seitz a £208,000 interest-free loan repayable in 18 months . |
| 20 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
| 21 | FIREMEN turn out to more false alarms in South Yorkshire — over 3,000 in five months this year — than real fires , says a new report . |
| 22 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 23 | MORE than a million people in southern Ethiopia are at risk of starvation in a famine that has killed 5,000 in five months , according to the country 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission . |
| 24 | That is enough to raise the level of the largest landlocked stretch of water in the Middle East by about 0.5 m in 12 months . |
| 25 | The militia also threatened factory workers not to become involved in last month 's decisive general strike against Communist rule . |
| 26 | German exporter expects to receive $ 100,000 in three months ' time . |
| 27 | From one month and four month rates we can derive the three month interest rate which , if prevailing in one month 's time , would lead to the same return being achieved from investing either in a combination of a one month deposit followed by a three month deposit , or in a four month deposit from the outset . |
| 28 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 29 | Those waiting a year for surgery fell from 367 to 293 in 12 months . |
| 30 | He breeds a special mental approach and you ca n't get that in one month . |