Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] months in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 2 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 3 | At Pontefract yesterday Isobel Brown , who said her last permanent address was Moscow , was committed for three months in the second division for having delivered a speech at Castleford on Wednesday likely to cause disaffection . |
| 4 | But he was surpassed both in Italianism and in quality of invention by another Nuremberg composer , Hassler ( 1564–1612 ) , who studied for fifteen months in Venice ( 1584–5 ) . |
| 5 | Made from fine-cut beef and pork , this salami is cured naturally in salt and then left to mature for three months in a controlled but draughty atmosphere . |
| 6 | A dried , uncooked ham will keep for several months in dry cool conditions . |
| 7 | He served for several months in the trenches around Ploegsteert , and displayed considerable courage in saving the lives of two men . |
| 8 | The yogurt keeps for six months in ambient conditions or two weeks — once opened — in a refrigerator . |
| 9 | The sick flocked to him , and in 1666 he toured England , staying for several months in Lincoln 's Inn Fields , where he treated a great number of sufferers with varying success . |
| 10 | She finished school last year , and she worked for six months in a hospital to get some money . |
| 11 | A year later he worked for six months in the Belfast area . |
| 12 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 13 | The second thing I did n't know , she er , she worked eighteen , she worked for eighteen months in London , arrived there for a holiday , and er , from being eighteen , so sh , this now will explain why she 's quite mature as I said she 's still very young , and that . |
| 14 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |
| 15 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 16 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
| 17 | Japan , too , is highlighted as part of the huge Japan Festival which is running for three months in Northern Ireland and throughout Britain — but , yes , it was another coincidence that Scottish Opera chose to offer us Madama Butterfly ! |
| 18 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 19 | It is made with ewes ' milk and is left to ripen for three months in limestone caves . |
| 20 | After stopping for several months in Toulouse , they arrived in Paris in February 1904 ; she was never to leave . |
| 21 | Dean 's body lay for four months in a lane 12 miles from the family home in Elmesthorpe , Leicestershire . |
| 22 | For that they were detained and tortured for four months in 1981 . |
| 23 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
| 24 | The court heard that Davies was jailed for nine months in 1985 for threatening to damage by fire Department of Heath and Social Security offices . |
| 25 | Mr Johnson was jailed for nine months in July after pleading guilty to administering poison to his daughters Samantha , seven , and Leanne , five , and assaulting his wife . |
| 26 | Abe Nathan , Middle East peace campaigner , jailed for six months in Israel for meeting Yasser Arafat The existence of the Socialist German Democratic Republic is good fortune for our people , and for the peoples of Europe . |
| 27 | A London born terrorist has today been jailed for six months in Amsterdam on arms offences . |
| 28 | Activists encamped for two months in the square until they were cleared away by the police at the end of May . |
| 29 | However , the higher ground in Scotland and Wales is usually snow covered for several months in winter . |
| 30 | It was announced on June 8 that the parliamentary term due to end on June 9 was being extended for 12 months in view of the " war situation " . |