Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Body weight was stable during the three months preceding the study . |
| 2 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , the key quarterly average has dropped and is down to 33,700 over the three months to March . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 13 | I did get a bit paranoid for a few months , stopped using the tube . |
| 14 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 18 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 19 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 20 | Rot , either in the glue or the wood or both , was only too likely within a few months . |
| 21 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Despite the bid costs , Amstrad was able to report a bounce back into the black for the six months to December . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 29 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 30 | I look forward very much to seeing you all in the coming months . |