Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Body weight was stable during the three months preceding the study . |
| 2 | As a result of improved reporting of unfit conduct by Official Receivers and insolvency practitioners , the number rose by 40% to 700 in the 12 months to 31 March 1992 . |
| 3 | Finally , although support for the strike call was not very strong across the four local ballots held in the ‘ in-between ’ group , solidarity was high in the early months , and remained so in Durham and Northumberland until the dispute 's end ; in the other three fields , however , support waned , with most Cumberland miners back at work by the end of 1984 , alongside about half of their contemporaries in North Derbyshire and Lancashire . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 5 | He was 68 years old in the early months of 1918 , when the experience of living through an air-raid proved too much for his system and he suffered a stroke . |
| 6 | However , the key quarterly average has dropped and is down to 33,700 over the three months to March . |
| 7 | You see my visions for qualitative are slightly different to the four months at the moment , and I feel perhaps could exchange Q P16 for the control procedures to be a longer procedure but to have everything covering the project plan in progress monitoring through to quality control procedures for just the quality . |
| 8 | Then there is an inner half-circle of local people going about their medieval business , catching and smoking the salmon of which the Gave d'Oloron was once notably full , hunting wild boar , making cheese , and so on , a different activity for each of the twelve months of the year . |
| 9 | Over 35% of the annual flow of the Lena , in Siberia , is delivered during the peak month of June , less than 1% in each of the three months of February , March and April . |
| 10 | Figures for people waiting between one and two years for treatment had also dropped by around 400 to 4,355 in the 12 months to the end of February . |
| 11 | In these circumstances it is not surprising that the number of repossessions has also increased sharply , from 2,530 in 1979 to 10,950 in 1984 and to over 24,000 in the twelve months ending in March 1988 , and that some local authorities who sold houses under the right to buy scheme are now reporting mortgage repayment problems among the new homeowners . |
| 12 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 13 | Third quarter net profit was up 15.2% at $1.0m on sales of $56.1m , up 2.2% , with net for the nine months at $2.7m . |
| 14 | Some horses that are well fed on hay and grain all through the dry months of summer may never have a real glow of health until the spring grasses appear . |
| 15 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 16 | Despite the bid costs , Amstrad was able to report a bounce back into the black for the six months to December . |
| 17 | I look forward very much to seeing you all in the coming months . |
| 18 | The omens for the new state were not encouraging in the first months of its existence . |
| 19 | The number of people out of work for longer than six months increased by 100,000 in the three months to January this year , to 1,621,000 . |
| 20 | There is plenty of opportunity for practice , and summer sketching parties beckon those who prefer not to be studio-bound in the warmer months . |
| 21 | The majority of " Paris Club " of Western creditor governments agreed on Dec. 18 to a debt-forgiveness arrangement which would erase half of the US$735 million of debt repayment due in the 18 months to March 1993 . |
| 22 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 23 | These snapshots , never previously exhibited , cover the period from Big Shot in 1971 until the final months of his life . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Britain 's current-account deficit of £20 billion ( $31 billion , or 3.6% of GDP ) in 1989 fell to an annual rate of only £4.1 billion in the six months to February , and the odd monthly surplus may soon appear . |
| 25 | TRADE , EXCHANGE RATES AND RESERVES Japan 's visible-trade surplus widened to $62.3 billion in the 12 months to November , but its current-account surplus fell to $37.7 billion . |
| 26 | Germany 's visible-trade surplus widened to $12.5 billion in the 12 months to January ; its current-account deficit narrowed to $14.2 billion in the same period . |
| 27 | After a series of acquisitions , its turnover reached $2 billion in the 12 months to September 1988 , with pre-tax profits of $360m . |
| 28 | NEARLY 2,000 businesses went bust in the three months following the Tories ' election victory . |
| 29 | HOSPITAL waiting lists jumped 11,000 in the three months after the general election , the Government revealed yesterday . |
| 30 | The industrial scene thus looked much more alarming in the early months of 1 978 . |