Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] months [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christer Pettersson , who was sentenced for and then acquitted of the murder in February 1986 of the Prime Minister , Olof Palme , was on May 2 , 1990 , awarded 300,000 kronor in damages for the 10 months he had spent in custody . |
| 2 | ‘ How do you propose to raise the money when for the past months you 've been claiming that it just was n't possible ? ’ |
| 3 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 4 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 5 | The result of his labours during the five months he had been there is a collection consisting of 500 Birds ; 100 Skeletons , 60 nests , the eggs of alike [ sic ] No. of species , and 3 nine gallon Kegs of specimens in spirits … |
| 6 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 7 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 8 | Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam . |
| 9 | After a few months she had decided that anything would be better than the ever-changing impersonality of that sort of life . |
| 10 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 11 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 12 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 13 | There was something decidedly odd about the engineering master ; his manner was always friendly , but , in the six months he had been at the school , Robert had not exchanged more than a few words with the man . |
| 14 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 15 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 16 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 17 | In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care , filling his mind with distilled knowledge , drop by drop , until … it was almost brimming over . |
| 18 | My Lords i in the eighteen months I 've been privileged to be a Member of Lordships House , I 've often asked myself what our functions are . |
| 19 | I 've even known her red , and that only in the eighteen months I 've worked for her . |
| 20 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 21 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 22 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 23 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 24 | Over the eighteen months I have had the multifasciatus they have showed signs of wanting to breed but have failed to do so . |
| 25 | France .......... 27 Home Unions XV .. 29 THE LIONS ' claws have not been drawn by the two months they have had apart since Australia . |