Example sentences of "[num] month [conj] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven months after a pensioner was found dead in his home , one of his neighbours has been charged with murdering him . |
| 2 | As previously mentioned , if the buyer indicates that he does not intend to make an offer for the company he will not be permitted to post an offer document for 12 months unless a third party announces an offer during that period . |
| 3 | As the hon. and learned Gentleman is asking questions about the management of our prisons , what has he to say about the management of a prison service in which , 12 months after a learned judge advises the Home Secretary to move suspected and convicted terrorists from Brixton prison , they are still there ? |
| 4 | The majority , a balance of 75% , are bullish about UK equities over the coming 12 months while a balance of 51% are enthusiastic about Japanese shares . |
| 5 | In early March 95,000 coal workers had agreed to rises of 4.7 per cent for 12 months and a one-off payment of DM |
| 6 | You became decently engaged and made plans to get married six months or a year ahead , and in the meantime you lived decorously at home with your parents . |
| 7 | But er I would warn you about er er accounts which obviously tie your money for a lot longer than maybe six months or a year because you 're always at the mercy of the er of the er building society then if their rates turn down or if you want access , you 've got penalties , and I think if , there 's no point in chasing interest rates through building societies generally , because if you take an average over five years , there is n't a lot of difference between one society and another . |
| 8 | The maximum penalty for the offence is now three years ’ imprisonment or a fine , or on summary conviction , imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine up to the statutory maximum . |
| 9 | The offence carries a power of arrest where a constable reasonably suspects that a person is committing an offence under the section , is triable summarily only , and punishable with six months or a fine to level 5 . |
| 10 | And in a way er and this is a story I think is gon na develop over the next six months or a year . |
| 11 | If I wanted to squander the money in six months or a year , I could do that too , but if I did he would haunt me . ’ |
| 12 | A young German student who finishes her school studies in June this year , is anxious to come to England as an au-pair for six months or a year . |
| 13 | I was engaged to Simon for six months and a virgin when I married . ’ |
| 14 | Karsten foresees a mass culling of products in the next six months and a polarisation into four big brands : Guinness ' alcohol-free lager Kaliber , Bass ' low-alcohol market leader Tennents LA , Whitbread 's White Label low-alcohol bitter and his own Clausthaler as the ‘ premium imported ’ brand . |
| 15 | Each of the offences is triable either way and punishable with imprisonment for two years on conviction on indictment , and summarily with six months and a fine to the statutory maximum . |
| 16 | Logitech predicts a life span of between six months and a year.Overall , I liked the MouseMan Cordless very much . |
| 17 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 18 | Er six months no six months and a week . |
| 19 | In a letter to Mr Major last night , Mr Smith accused the Prime Minister of giving no good reason why the legal opinion on the Maastricht legislation should not be published or why it overturned the view from the Foreign Office during the last 10 months that a vote in favour of the social chapter would wreck the treaty . |
| 20 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 21 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 22 | Forward rates can be quoted for various delivery dates but the most common time intervals are one month , three months and a year . |
| 23 | nervosa which essentially means , er loss of body weight or fifteen percent your normal preoccupation with weight , and loss of your periods for three months and a morbid fear of gaining weight . |
| 24 | ‘ Between about three months and a year , I should say . ’ |
| 25 | Physicians are concerned at the fact that heart patients sometimes have to wait between three months and a year for surgery . |
| 26 | ‘ Between about three months and a year , I should say . ’ |
| 27 | It is likely however that Parathion will continue to be used for at least another 18 months before a full ban is implemented . |
| 28 | Angolan radio announced on April 18 that agreement had been reached on unification of the two military forces , and Portuguese media reported on April 19 that it had been agreed to hold free elections 18 months after a ceasefire was signed . |
| 29 | Similar problems may also be experienced when an accounting reference period is changed , since s 225(6) of the CA1985 provides that : ‘ An accounting reference period may not in any case ( exception if administration order is in force ) be extended so as to exceed 18 months and a notice under this section is ineffective if the current or previous accounting reference period as extended in accordance with the notice would exceed that limit . ’ |
| 30 | The charge will be 0 for the first 6 months that a property is empty . |