Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] months [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre .
2 I mean , I can well recall in my own analysis with , of course , for the first six months she said nothing , and I used to get very frustrated , and say , look , what do you think of this ?
3 In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone .
4 For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen .
5 For the first four months he also funded his salary out of personal savings .
6 For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent .
7 For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more .
8 Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face .
9 For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own .
10 For the last six months I did erm ward sister duties .
11 She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on .
12 His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power .
13 ‘ Sometimes , ’ muttered Phoebe ; she was not going to tell this woman that for the last six months she had done practically nothing else .
14 I think this is because for the last five months I was pregnant I was so withdrawn and would n't talk to anybody — would n't go out of the house , I used to sit upstairs or here hoping she would n't kick too hard and my dad would n't see anything .
15 For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland .
16 For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland .
17 I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve .
18 For the last two months he has been attending Queen 's Park with his wife Christine and three children . )
19 For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown .
20 ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’
21 Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools .
22 A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary .
23 If these operations are to be distributed evenly across our region , for the next few months we should concentrate on patients from other health districts ( assuming equal clinical priority ) .
24 So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down .
25 For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines .
26 Fill in and return the payment instruction overleaf and for the next three months you 'll receive the New Internationalist magazine absolutely free and with no obligation , plus your gifts .
27 During the second six months he can , and may get a little work ; but until at least a year after the end of pupillage he will probably have to live on his parents or spouse .
28 During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour .
29 During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches .
30 During the next 12 months we shall continue to promote the case studies and guidelines material , and this will include a number of regional conferences and seminars .
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