Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 2 | He heard nothing for four months . |
| 3 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 4 | Nothing for ten months . |
| 5 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 6 | The Italian , who was with me for two months , became really rather tiresome and disruptive , especially to the charming young German working hard for her exams . |
| 7 | to last me for one month , because we 've got to put it on . |
| 8 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you 'll owe me for six months ' work . ’ |
| 10 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 11 | You you walk round the flats , and you know , you walk round them for fourteen months , and all of a sudden you have to stop and think where you are . |
| 12 | ‘ I bought them all , ’ he remembers , ‘ John Hedgecoe 's book of this , David Bailey 's book of that , and I totally immersed myself in them for six months . |
| 13 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 14 | If you sent your work to a publisher and have not heard from them for two months , you should write to ask them whether or not they intend to publish it . |
| 15 | They 've had them for two months . |
| 16 | He 's been giving me them for eight months now . |
| 17 | If a limitation period has just been missed , one useful argument is the fact that it is possible to issue proceedings one day before limitation expires and then to hang on to them for four months before they are served . |
| 18 | If necessary , you can leave them for several months and the beetles will continue to feed and reproduce . |
| 19 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |
| 20 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 21 | Their antioxidant protects them for three months against deterioration , but one respected manufacturer actually limits production to minimise stockpiling . |
| 22 | She stayed with them for three months and as well as looking after their daughter Alexandra she cleaned and cooked . |
| 23 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 24 | But if the line manager if in theory the line manager is taking feedback from them on immediately after the course and then going back to them after three months or six months . |
| 25 | By now you 'll be out and about all the time on your scooter but , just in case the second Thursday of the month should dawn wet and windy again , I have chosen yours as this month 's Star Letter . |
| 26 | Here we submit to a deep sea-change of hormonal rhythms and intestinal flora — and prepare ourselves for unknown months of deep immersion amongst the wilder regions of the archipelago . |
| 27 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 28 | He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman . |
| 29 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 30 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |