Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [subord] a month " in BNC.
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1 | They reembarked and returned to the UK after more than a month at sea . |
2 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
3 | TRAINS moved vital supplies into Soviet Armenia yesterday , ending a blockade of more than a month by workers in neighbouring Azerbaijan , Reuter reports . |
4 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
5 | The chances are that the Lords , with the same rigorous three-stage scrutiny of the bill as in the Commons , but squeezed into less than a month , will give the treaty the nod . |
6 | With less than a month left before the 7 November election and opinion polls showing that he leads his Republican opponent , Congressman Jim Courter , by between 14 and 23 points , the race for governor of New Jersey is attracting intense national interest . |
7 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |
8 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
9 | Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 . |
10 | Although in his new post for less than a month , Alf has made such an impression at Polypropylene Park that throughout the League his team are already being nicknamed ‘ Busby 's Test Tube Babes ’ . |
11 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
12 | Rewarded with a seat on the Privy Council , he held it for less than a month , dying of apoplexy 20 July 1675 . |
13 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
14 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
15 | Ginseng is another alternative , but it is expensive and should not be taken for more than a month , as doctors suspect it is harmful to those who have high blood pressure . |
16 | And since this means that at least 20 per cent of the captive-bred animals ( with no experience of the wild ) have been shown to be able to hunt for themselves , find shelter from the freezing conditions and evade predators for more than a month , Bob Oakleaf of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department considers the release a success . |
17 | To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month . |
18 | If we were not away by sunset , there would not be another appropriate departure date for more than a month . |
19 | So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two . |
20 | Their swollen feet had bled profusely and they had hobbled painfully among the rubber trees for more than a month before they recovered . |
21 | ‘ I had a bite on the top of my head for more than a month . |
22 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
23 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
24 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
25 | A cyclist held in prison in Nepal on forgery charges for more than a month has been released . |
26 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
27 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
28 | In Bucharest 's university square , scene of anti-front demonstrations for more than a month now , the debate continued with more accusations of electoral malpractice by the front . |
29 | In less than a month , LEP has produced more than 11,000 of them , compared to a few hundred detected in California . |
30 | If the adventure had to end , no one among the HFS Loans League side dared to imagine that it might end in less than a month 's time in front of a few thousand at Spotland . |