Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adj] months " in BNC.

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1 This was how her illness had started in the beginning — with an outbreak of insomnia some months after her child had died .
2 Paleokrassas has given the Department of Transport two months to disprove the allegation , after signing a " reasoned opinion " which would provide the basis for EC lawyers to start legal action against Britain .
3 But before I talk about whether I should use that discretion , I should like to say that , as my hon. Friend said , I have known about his concern about the Axminster practice virtually since I arrived in the Department of Health 18 months ago .
4 They drew 1-1 in Brussels with a late equaliser from Dean Saunders a result which virtually ended the Belgians ' interest in the competition after their 3-1 defeat in Cardiff three months earlier .
5 All patients ( 90% ) who were free of obstruction from hyperplasia six months after implantation , remained asymptomatic subsequently .
6 Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago !
7 He said : ‘ We had difficulties admitting patients to ICU in Middlesbrough several months ago , but that was not just in Middlesbrough .
8 This was not true , however , of a similar march in Londonderry 2 months later .
9 Apart from Mr Patten , four other ministers have lost their Cabinet posts : former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , who is believed to have refused an offer to take over as Welsh Secretary ; Tom King from Defence , who asked for a break from office four months ago ; Peter Brooke from Northern Ireland ; and Lord Waddington , former leader of the Lords .
10 Although many signs were associated with hypoxaemia in infants 3–11 months of age , retractions , grunting , and unresponsiveness seemed to be the most useful signs of hypoxaemia in this age group .
11 Supermarket chain Gateway Foodmarkets announced it was switching its 1,100 cars to diesel six months ago and said it expected to save around £400,000 a year on fuel alone .
12 One of his most extravagant displays was in a race against a Jaguar racing car at Abingdon 18 months ago .
13 Table 4.4 does not support overall the hypothesis that among those still living at home six months and 12 months after referral , the action samples would contain higher proportions of people suffering from a selection of ‘ home care disadvantages ’ .
14 When he wrote to the Prince of Canino five months later he had a little more time to describe the achievements of his two years ‘ in the wilds of Australia ’ :
15 Although Queen Victoria , who had married just two years ago like Gemma , had produced the Princess Royal ten months after the wedding service , the Prince of Wales eleven months after that , and was thought on excellent authority , to be expecting again .
16 MICHAEL STICH last night resurrected a career that had been rapidly going downhill ever since he was the shock winner of Wimbledon 18 months ago .
17 Other surveys in the Power stable measure the opinions of owners three months ( the Initial Quality Survey ) and five years ( the Vehicle Dependability Index ) after purchase .
18 I specifically asked a question about gates some months ago and was assured there were no such plans .
19 Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes , have ben set free by a judge after spending four months in a Turkish jail .
20 Castlemorton near Malvern five months ago .
21 The Unemployed Flow Survey also shows that , of those people who found work within I 0 months of their initial registration as unemployed , a quarter took jobs which were temporary , temporary here meaning jobs with a predetermined end or date of termination .
22 Vee Clark has written to say she bought her first knitting machine from Julia 18 months ago and has been very happy to have her help on more than one occasion .
23 The questionnaire included personal details ( age , sex , current grade of employment , ethnic group , marital status , years of full time education , highest level of education , partner 's and father 's occupation , housing tenure , and car ownership ) ; health ( self rated health over the past 12 months , presence of longstanding illness , and presence of recurring health problems based on questions used in the general household survey , and presence of psychiatric symptoms based on the 30 item general health questionnaire ) ; health related behaviours ( current smoking habits , usual frequency of alcohol consumption in past 12 months , and amount of alcohol consumed in the past seven days ) ; psychosocial work characteristics ( assessed with a 67 item questionnaire based on the occupational strain model of job demands and decision latitude which included questions on control , variety and use of skills , and work pace as proposed by Karasek , support at work , and job satisfaction ) ; social circumstances outside work ( number of dependent children , social contact with relatives and friends , and personal difficulties such as financial problems ) ; and types of social support ( assessed by 15 self report questions on up to four nominated close friends or relatives ) .
24 McCrory , 28 , quit to the ring after being knocked out in two rounds by Lewis 21 months ago but trimmed back down to cruiser and felt strong enough to make a comeback .
25 They have only played together for 45 minutes at international level , when Shearer scored on his debut against France nine months ago .
26 Craig , who joined the Royal Corps of Transport 18 months ago after leaving his job as a postman , had just returned to Northern Ireland after attending a driving course in England .
27 At the Tehran conference in December 1943 , from which Chiang was excluded , Stalin confirmed that Russia would participate in the war against Japan three months after the European War had been won .
28 Our training staff came from the 3rd Squadron , which had returned from the war in Chad three months before .
29 Before his England debut , his rendition of ‘ Swing Low , Sweet Chariot ’ roused the team before their match in Poland 12 months ago .
30 Unhappily , the pairing of England and Holland will be the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons , not least a repetition of the media hyperbole which accompanied their European Championship match in Dusseldorf 18 months ago .
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