Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] months ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 2 | But in the meantime we will work on company averages for you , until you 've started building six months ' data . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 4 | He asked that she be given six months ' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him . |
| 5 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 6 | The length of that sort of letter hardly matters — one sentence might give six months ' nourishment , or a paragraph may become food for reflection . |
| 7 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 8 | 4.2 The Company will give three months ' notice to the Supplier of any alterations to the above forecast should it wish to revise the same during any twelve month period . |
| 9 | In late 1925 he was one of twelve leading communists arrested and tried on charges of sedition and incitement to mutiny , for which he received twelve months ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 11 | On 30 June 1988 Mr. Page was given three months ' notice terminating his appointment on the grounds of redundancy . |
| 12 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 13 | The plaintiff must issue a summons for directions after he has given three months ' notice under Ord 37 , r10 that he intends to apply for further damages . |
| 14 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 15 | He was enrolled on 8 March 1790 , paying six months ' fees in advance , and completed his training on 7 March 1 791 . |
| 16 | Look , she said , he 's left , bolted , owing three months ' back rent . |
| 17 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 18 | Some companies are also reported to be paying several months ' salary in advance of the election . |
| 19 | When war broke out he had to endure four months ' internment as an enemy alien . |
| 20 | She was given 18 months ' probation . |
| 21 | Sitting pretty : Marion Barry , who lost his job as Mayor of Washington and served six months ' jail for cocaine possession , is back in city government after winning a council seat . |
| 22 | If any reporters were to be poached from other papers , they would mostly need to give three months ' notice . |
| 23 | Two young Harvard dealers who were sacked still owed two months ' rent . |
| 24 | HSBC Holdings , which bought Midland Bank last summer , yesterday reported a near doubling of profits in annual figures which included six months ' contribution from the UK clearing bank . |
| 25 | In November Waterstones had declared that it had terminated the concession , giving six months ' notice . |
| 26 | In 1966 the applicant was appointed as a lecturer to the university by a letter stating , inter alia , that his appointment might be terminated by either party giving three months ' notice in writing . |
| 27 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 28 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 29 | There was a certain irony in the fact that one of the first things Baldwin told the King , on taking over from the decrepit MacDonald , was that he himself needed two months ' rest . |
| 30 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |