Example sentences of "his [num] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the first time in his eight months in office , Mr Kaifu now has a chance of pulling off a coup big enough to ensure his survival as prime minister . |
| 2 | By far the most damaging proposition which the Secretary of State has advanced in his 12 months in office is likely seriously and adversely to affect the standard and quality of education in our schools . |
| 3 | His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ This has been the worst year for me , ’ Leconte said , recounting his six months out of the game with back trouble . |
| 5 | It is assumed that , having married an Englishwoman , he returned to France in December 1788 at the end of his six months ' leave . |
| 6 | IN THE wake of his suspension , French prop GREGOIRE LASCUBE has taken up refereeing in the hope that his six months ' ban will be reduced . |
| 7 | He has formed a close relationship with a woman during his six months in Bosnia and now wants to end his 19-year marriage , the Sun newspaper reported today . |
| 8 | During his six months as Treasurer Kerin had frequently displayed a lack of ease in the post . |
| 9 | During his six months in office , Illes crusaded against powerful and entrenched organisations such as the water and power industries . |
| 10 | The Dublin player 's sending off for kicking Donegal midfielder Brian Murray in the National League final was of course deserved , and his six months ban in proportion to his offence . |
| 11 | Throughout his nineteen months at the Board of Trade his principal public service was that of observing the Prime Minister with an increasingly jaundiced eye . |
| 12 | His development as a personality and player in his three months with Celtic were illustrated during last week 's glorious exit from the European Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 13 | Thanks to his three months of briefings , he is as eloquent about managed competition as anyone , and as cautious about price controls . |
| 14 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 15 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 16 | In my view , Ivanov probably did not spy , in the conventional sense , during his 18 months in Britain , simply because he managed to produce spectacular results for his employers without subterfuge . |
| 17 | That overdraft has resulted from club-record spending by the Owls manager , who has splashed out £4.3m in his 18 months at the Hillsborough helm . |
| 18 | The essay evokes the second phase of his life between his fifteen months at St. Paul 's School from January 1894 until Easter 1895 , his courtship and marriage to Helen Noble , his three years at Oxford from October 1897 to June 1900 , his year as a poverty stricken journalist in London , and his determined move to Bearsted in September in 1901 : |
| 19 | In his fifteen months at the helm , MacDonald has yet to publish any financial figures for Norton ( despite Companies Act and Stock Exchange requirements for semi-annual numbers ) , with the result that the shares are suspended from the stock market . |
| 20 | He will let Cardiff know before the end of the month if he will accept their offer of a new contract , after completely rejuvenating the Arms Park side in his five months in charge . |
| 21 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 22 | He first of all asked for a mandate based not on the distortions of a month 's electioneering but on his 16 months in the leadership , not least his performance on the international stage . |
| 23 | The former Arsenal and England midfielder , who has failed to win a regular first team place during his 16 months at Elland Road , complained bitterly at the weekend after being dropped for the home game against Swindon . |
| 24 | Gulliver , the former Argyll Group chief who was brought in to raise revenue , made little impact during his 16 months with the club . |
| 25 | One of these kept a record of the lessons during his nine months tuition . |
| 26 | It was his first visit to Nijmegen and , although he had got his CMT 3 qualification , he had spent most of his two months at 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance checking equipment , putting up tents and doing guard duties . |
| 27 | Cranmer played no rugby after the war , and apart from a handful of matches during his two months in India he played no cricket during the hostilities . |
| 28 | During his two months as Labour leader and Prime Minister Moore was successful in closing the gap between the two parties , but the opinion polls continued to point to a clear National Party victory . |
| 29 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |
| 30 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |