Example sentences of "[prep] it for [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 2 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 3 | So , stick with it for four months , and you 'll have all the information you need to look like an expert down at the pub ! |
| 4 | There is somebody in that company , who 's probably been with it for nine months , who knows it backwards and who 's capable of playing the role . |
| 5 | Having lived with it for 19 months , John Dyer , an unlikely champion of investors ' rights and one of the few ‘ fortunates ’ not hit hard by the collapse , was fulsome in his praise for BCIG 's supporters . |
| 6 | I stayed with it for three months , then left because it was n't what I wanted to spend my life doing . |
| 7 | No sound had emerged from it for six months : spare parts were hard to get , Dynmouth Hi-Fi Boutique informed him . |
| 8 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 9 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 10 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 11 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ The Home Secretary is responsible for immigration and has made speeches about it for many months . |
| 13 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 14 | We had been at it for three months now . |