Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tolerated her while Ma was alive to keep the peace for Ma 's sake , except for the past few months , but no more . |
| 2 | Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome . |
| 3 | Applying sections 1 and 2 to the facts of this appeal , the position is that for the first six months ( the period of the original letting ) the tenant was a protected tenant . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ muttered Phoebe ; she was not going to tell this woman that for the last six months she had done practically nothing else . |
| 5 | Latest figures show that during the first two months of this year more than 14,000 took up the Company 's invitation to find out more about nuclear power by visiting Sellafield . |
| 6 | I understand that during the past 12 months there have been three gas leaks , two in the southern sector and one in the northern sector . |
| 7 | Council records show that during the last 18 months 32 companies and 12 sole traders stopped trading in the town ‘ for one reason or another . ’ |
| 8 | British Telecommunications Plc 's BT North America has announced deployment of 9.6Kbps local dial capabilities in 99 new US cities , meaning that during the last six months it has more than doubled its coverage . |
| 9 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 10 | A spokesman for North Wales Police said it was at least heartening to note that the rate of increase of vehicle crime up to June this year was less than for the previous 12 months . |
| 11 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 12 | From the foregoing , you will see that my experience , and hence the bulk of this talk , revolves around engineering applications although for the last 9 months of my time in post I also was responsible for supply aspects of AI and I will cover this briefly . |
| 13 | It may interest them that within the last few months the European parliament has agreed to press for a bill of rights for the citizens of Europe and for a written constitution for Europe . |
| 14 | It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 15 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 16 | Walberg , Hose and Raster ( 1978 ) showed the significant relationship between LOR and proficiency in English with Japanese children in the USA , but also point out that the rate of learning slows down very quickly over time , so that in the first two months the child learns as much as he will in the next five months , the next year and so on . |
| 17 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 18 | The statistics summarised in Table 3.8 show that in the first four months of 1985 , the number of people entering unemployment averaged 347,525 and the number leaving averaged 338,750 against a total unemployment figure of just over 3 m . |
| 19 | Meyer 's chairman Richard Jewson says that in the first four months of this year there is absolutely no sign of more people moving house than a year ago . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a fact that in the first 12 months one in three firms will close and in the longer term 900pc of new companies will shut in their first five years . ’ |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 22 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |
| 23 | The company notes that in the past six months , Pick Systems has also provided municipal services software for the city of St. Petersburg and has established Pick training centres in most of the major Russian scientific and technical institutes . |
| 24 | Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent . |
| 25 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 26 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the past 12 months , because of his policies , 768,000 people have lost their jobs , 100,000 people have lost their homes and 45,000 companies have gone bankrupt ? |
| 27 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |
| 28 | WEN predict that in the next six months all soft paper manufacturers here will change their practices — labelling items according to their pulping and bleaching process and promoting ’ chlorine free ’ . |
| 29 | It is hoped that in the next few months , following some training and an LEA-inspired new job description , certain simple maintenance tasks will be completed totally ‘ in-house ’ . |
| 30 | His comments were a bit premature because we find that in the next few months more than half those who died were children between the ages of 8 days and 9 years . |