Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] [adj] months " in BNC.
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1 | Private agencies deal with temporary work for a maximum six months . |
2 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
3 | The indexing is done with respect to a lagged value of the RPI and both the increase in capital value ( the uplift ) and the increase in interest payments depend on the rate of change of the price index to a period eight months earlier . |
4 | Meanwhile , Keegan is happy that Newcastle are going out of 1992 on a high after a roller-coaster 12 months on Tyneside . |
5 | Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1974 for the murder of 12 people , including nine soldiers , killed in an IRA bombing of a coach eight months earlier [ see p. 26458 ] , and she was also given concurrent 30-year prison terms for involvement in explosions at Euston Station in London and at a Ministry of Defence college [ see pp. 26873-74 ] . |
6 | For George Tyson and his wife , Rosie , it meant the release from a tormenting 19 months which saw their £15,000 savings put at risk . |
7 | But the lesson had not been learned , and when Benn fought Eubank as a champion 18 months later , he believed the fight was merely a stepping stone towards big-money outings in America . |
8 | Even Ivanovka , the only village not far from the Moscow railway line , had received its last single copy of a newspaper some months prior to Yakovlev 's visit . |
9 | Barnes could face his England namesake John in the Coca-Cola Cup fourth round replay at Selhurst Park after just 22 minutes of first-team action with Palace in a nightmare 15 months blighted by knee injuries . |