Example sentences of "take six month " in BNC.
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| 1 | It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE . |
| 2 | It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate . |
| 3 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 4 | But most seemed intitially content to accept the restructuring which could take six months to negotiate . |
| 5 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 6 | In 1969 , he took six months ' sabbatical leave to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris . |
| 7 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 8 | Dismantling and removal took six months and was carried out by three men . |
| 9 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 10 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 11 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 12 | The work took six months — from April to October 1990 . |
| 13 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 14 | The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer . |
| 15 | The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer . |
| 16 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 17 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 18 | In 1980 , Allan Wells took six months off work to enable him to train twice a day . |
| 19 | Took six months to build that . |
| 20 | The special , which had taken six months to plan , was axed after Best called United ‘ f***ing crap ’ and his former team-mate Bobby Charlton ‘ a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 21 | The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders . |
| 22 | And they do n't mean when we can afford a bigger house or when we 've had the big-deal holiday , but when I 've risen high enough on the corporate ladder to be able to take six months off without everyone forgetting who the hell I am . |
| 23 | If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs . |
| 24 | ‘ I dearly hope it wo n't be necessary , ’ he added , asking for volunteers to take six months unpaid leave and take part in job-sharing schemes . |
| 25 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 26 | Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months . |
| 27 | The work is expected to take six months . |