Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 2 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 3 | The company has been given 12 months to fit equipment to control discharges of the highly toxic chemical pentachlorophenol ( PCP ) . |
| 4 | And Altovar Limited has been given three months to pay the eight thousand pound fine . |
| 5 | The Japanese hi-fi 's clapped out , the VW should have been replaced 18 months ago , and that new Miele dishwasher does n't quite fit alongside the Swedish fridge . |
| 6 | Action might have been taken two months ago . |
| 7 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 8 | The elections had been called 15 months early after a group of five Green legislators — who had kept the minority government of Michael Field in office since June 1989 [ see p. 37877 ] — withdrew its support after disagreements over the issue of logging [ for May 1989 elections see p. 36658 ] . |
| 9 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 10 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 11 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 12 | Agreed , the appointment had been made two months ago . |
| 13 | As a matter of authenticity , and given that the appointment had been made two months ago and that perhaps Mr Gajdusek might need a little reminder , she took the letter from its envelope while , his touch again tingling , again gentle , he smoothed some cream over her bruises . |
| 14 | Retrospective radiological review showed that this lesion had been present when an initial diagnosis of coeliac disease had been made 12 months previously and a detailed description of the natural history of the lymphoma during this period was thus available . |
| 15 | This patient had a history of chest pain , although a negative exercise test had been recorded 7.5 months before the episode . |
| 16 | The circumlocution obscured the compelling fact that the earlier Bill had been abandoned two months after the outbreak of war with Germany . |
| 17 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 18 | On 30 July , the last day before the Summer Recess , battered but relieved Ministers , their policy of retention rejected by the elected House but upheld by the hereditary peers , saw the Act finally onto the statute book in largely the same form as it had been introduced nine months earlier . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been gone nine months . ’ |
| 20 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 21 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |