Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] months [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tractors are used for the twelve months you see but not a combine . |
| 2 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 3 | Christer Petersson , who was acquitted of the 1986 murder of the Swedish Prime Minister , Mr Olof Palme , is demanding two million kronor ( £213,000 ) compensation for the 10 months he spent in jail , news reports said yesterday . |
| 4 | Christer Pettersson , who was sentenced for and then acquitted of the murder in February 1986 of the Prime Minister , Olof Palme , was on May 2 , 1990 , awarded 300,000 kronor in damages for the 10 months he had spent in custody . |
| 5 | ‘ How do you propose to raise the money when for the past months you 've been claiming that it just was n't possible ? ’ |
| 6 | The University decreed zero hope for recovery for Arthur , though they tried everything they could , and one of the personnel devoted his whole life to Arthur during the six months he was hospitalised there . |
| 7 | During the six months I spent there I realised how important it was to adapt quickly . |
| 8 | During the fifteen months he remained in South Africa after The Soldier 's Tale he created three more works and laid plans for others , some of which came to fruition years later . |
| 9 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 10 | During the following months we started to distribute basic medical material to dispensaries , health centres , and hospitals in a few districts . |
| 11 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 12 | Actually , I did n't go to the hairdresser once during the five months I was in Private Lives and my hair became healthier from not being subjected to heated rollers or setting lotion . |
| 13 | The result of his labours during the five months he had been there is a collection consisting of 500 Birds ; 100 Skeletons , 60 nests , the eggs of alike [ sic ] No. of species , and 3 nine gallon Kegs of specimens in spirits … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 16 | Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs . |
| 17 | ‘ Middlesbrough is richly endowed with religious communities and during the coming months we will need to give some careful thought as to how our own diocese can benefit from this moment of Grace for the whole church . ’ |
| 18 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 19 | During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game . |
| 20 | During the warmer months I averaged at least 15 common carp in a five hour session but this winter two sessions were biteless . |
| 21 | During the seven months he spent there he wrote two songs , Non m'ama più and Lamento d'amore , which he had difficulty in publishing at the time , but which later became popular . |
| 22 | ‘ During the three months I was in America a few years ago , it would happen again and again . |
| 23 | So you , you 'd manage on fifteen thousand but then after the twelve months you 'd most probably want to go up to say seventy five percent of your earnings ? |
| 24 | Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam . |
| 25 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 26 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 27 | After a few months she had decided that anything would be better than the ever-changing impersonality of that sort of life . |
| 28 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 29 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 30 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |