Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] months [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Christer Petersson , who was acquitted of the 1986 murder of the Swedish Prime Minister , Mr Olof Palme , is demanding two million kronor ( £213,000 ) compensation for the 10 months he spent in jail , news reports said yesterday .
2 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 .
3 During the six months I spent there I realised how important it was to adapt quickly .
4 During the fifteen months he remained in South Africa after The Soldier 's Tale he created three more works and laid plans for others , some of which came to fruition years later .
5 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 .
6 During the following months we started to distribute basic medical material to dispensaries , health centres , and hospitals in a few districts .
7 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 .
8 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 …
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs .
12 It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools .
13 During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game .
14 During the warmer months I averaged at least 15 common carp in a five hour session but this winter two sessions were biteless .
15 During the seven months he spent there he wrote two songs , Non m'ama più and Lamento d'amore , which he had difficulty in publishing at the time , but which later became popular .
16 Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam .
17 I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there .
18 After a few months she had decided that anything would be better than the ever-changing impersonality of that sort of life .
19 They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring .
20 After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney .
21 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 .
22 At intervals throughout the next months he worked on this material , in preparation for his show at the Lefevre Gallery in September 1951 and for other exhibitions .
23 For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace .
24 ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that .
25 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 .
26 In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe .
27 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 .
28 In the first months he travelled up to London on Wednesday , sometimes by train but often one of his neighbours , Sir Philip Gibbs , would drive him .
29 Whether he did this is questionable , as in the following months he made a kitchen in the east end of the greenhouse .
30 In the following months he defeated Lord Franks in the election of a Chancellor for Oxford University : he was still in office in 1983 , and still using in public ceremonies the Latin pronunciation he had learned at Eton in the last Edwardian days .
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