Example sentences of "[num] month ['s] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
2 | ‘ In about six months ' time I 'm going to be a father . ’ |
3 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
4 | What the plan ca n't do erm , is , I suppose , yeah wel , the only way you can deal with that , well , there 's one of two ways , you can set the plan up , erm , for full benefit let's say the salary was twenty thousand so by here you 're getting ten so you set the plan up , in retrospect for the same twenty thousand pounds , but at the six month 's stage you claim half of it yes , and at the twelve month stage , you 're now claiming the full benefit . |
5 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
6 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
7 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
8 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |