Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian Aid has agreed to my taking three months ' unpaid leave , and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth has kindly awarded me a bursary to cover costs of travel . |
| 2 | With 43 recommendations , the report , which took four months to prepare , admits that ‘ a free society requires the freedom to say or print things that are inconvenient to those in authority , whether they be members of the Royal Family , ministers , MPs , local councillors or public officials ’ . |
| 3 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 4 | Throughout the formulation of the policy , which took ten months , pressure continued for the bank to continue its support of logging projects on the grounds that managed logging was better than indiscriminate clearance . |
| 5 | They are offering a brilliant 15% discount to everyone who takes this month 's copy of Hairflair into their salons . |
| 6 | I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer . |
| 7 | Their trigger fingers are obviously becoming more itchy ; last year they took nine months to fire off 313,000 rounds at demonstrators with a total bill to the Korean taxpayer of $6.7 million . |
| 8 | If they take three months you will be financing 25 per cent of your year 's sales and at four months you will be financing 33.3 per cent . |
| 9 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 10 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 11 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 12 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 13 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 14 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 15 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 16 | In 1969 , he took six months ' sabbatical leave to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris . |
| 17 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 18 | He took nine months off between jobs and dabbled in commune life , with a period at Laurieston Hall , the alternative centre on the Scottish Borders . |
| 19 | He took 6 months to regain his confidence that we were n't going to hit him . |
| 20 | He took three month 's leave and went to our world assembly at Caux . |
| 21 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 22 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 23 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 24 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 25 | It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme . |
| 26 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 27 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 28 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 29 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 30 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |