Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] months [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can reduce this risk by ensuring that the man practises safer sex for the 6 months prior to insemination , and then has an HIV test . |
| 2 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 3 | During the following months five judges presided over a new series of perambulations in the counties of Northampton , Huntingdon , Rutland , Oxford and Surrey . |
| 4 | Average prices decreased by 13.3 per cent in the South East during the twelve months prior to March 1990 , whereas the corresponding figure for the North of England was an increase of 25.2 per cent . |
| 5 | During the 12 months prospective follow up of the 30 patients completing four weeks treatment , one patient ( prednisolone treated ) was lost to follow up at week 16 . |
| 6 | As the law is complex to apply in some cases where the notice period needs to be calculated and perhaps added to the three months limit or , as in the Sen case , the adviser simply got the calculation of the three months wrong , the claim should be presented and the Tribunal asked to consider the facts before exercising its discretion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If so , it suggests that liberal policies will be implemented in Peru at least for a few months this year , whatever the general public thinks . |
| 9 | For a few months this carried all before it . |
| 10 | It remained his seat for a few months short of thirty years . |
| 11 | An insider is an individual who is knowingly connected with a company in the six months prior to the securities trades in question . |
| 12 | Paykel ( 1979 ) pointed out that events are also more common in the lives of schizophrenic patients in the six months before their first admission and in the six months prior to suicide attempts . |
| 13 | In the two months prior to writing this chapter , my counselling has involved one thirteen-year-old babysitter for a coven who was drugged and sexually abused for two years before eventually plucking up the courage to tell her parents . |
| 14 | The award , worth £20,000 , is given to ‘ a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding June 1992 ’ and was granted by a jury consisting of Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude-Beaud , director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain , Robert Hopper , director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Sarah Kent , art critic of Time Out magazine and Howard Karshan , representative of the patrons of New Art . |
| 15 | It is a sobering statistic that in the twelve months either side of Owens ' triumph there were twenty-six lynchings of blacks in the USA . |
| 16 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 17 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |
| 18 | He is over 55 , married , without education or job training ; furthermore , he has had a spell of registered unemployment , did not work full-time in the 12 months prior to becoming unemployed and lives in a council house . |
| 19 | In the hottest months these curtains would be tightly shut in one more effort to get away from the heat and glare . |
| 20 | The climate for an agreement on nuclear weapons had been improved by developments in the three months prior to December [ see p. 38576 ] . |
| 21 | Within a few months many assurances were broken ; there were wistful , unfulfilled hopes of James Edward Stuart landing and asserting himself as King James VII ; and in the House of Lords an attempt by Scottish members to repeal the Act was defeated by only a small majority . |
| 22 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 23 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 24 | That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed . |
| 25 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 26 | Over the coming months Labour will be concentrating on the cost of local government reform , and mobilising support , from all parties , against the Conservatives ' plans . |
| 27 | Going back to the six months one erm where you 've fifteen thousand |
| 28 | Over a few months all the Goldfish , Comets , Orfe and Shubunkins in my pond have died , although tadpoles seem to survive . |
| 29 | Julie Godwin , pictured above with Sophie at a few months old , was raped and killed with her holiday pal Elizabeth Over as the pair sunbathed on a beach in South Africa . |