Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [num] months [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air/Sea Rescue training school at RAF Mountbatten , Plymouth provided the type of training course relevant to our needs and they kindly consented to a selected few of our senior crew members attending the school for the necessary three months session . |
| 2 | For the first three months Barfield is officially the ER businesses ' proprietor and holds any surplus funds they generate . |
| 3 | For the past six months Jardines has been arguing that Hong Kong 's largest companies should be granted ‘ exempt listing status ’ . |
| 4 | For the past 18 months Norman has had intense physiotherapy and speech therapy to maximise the use of muscles he can move . |
| 5 | For the next eighteen months Amery toured prisoner-of-war camps , seeking to recruit a Legion of St George — unromantically renamed by the Germans the British Free Corps — to fight alongside the Germans against the Russians and save Europe from Bolshevism . |
| 6 | The calendar of events form for the next six months period which should be completed and returned before 2 MARCH 1990 . |
| 7 | For the next 16 months Blake commuted daily between his house in Bickley , Kent and MI6 's headquarters in London . |
| 8 | For the next three months Walsh , Hayling , Horsley , Everett and the ever-present Olwen raced around the country in the black Jaguar . |
| 9 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 10 | During the next twelve months Alfonso entrusted the premiership first to another general , Berenguer , and then to an admiral , Aznar , each governing without parliamentary restraint . |
| 11 | During the next nine months Omar more than justified Sandford 's strong recommendation . |
| 12 | During the next ten months Jack would fly on fighter patrols , reconnaissance flights , anti-U-Boat patrols , harassing sorties over Macedonia and long distance bombing raids . |
| 13 | During the next twenty months Mozart composed a substantial amount of music , including three symphonies and what was to be his last complete mass setting , K.337 ( an incomplete one survives , K.427/417a from 1782 , and the Requiem was unfinished at the time of his death ) . |
| 14 | During the next three months Alexander spent all his hard-earned money visiting the theatre , art galleries or going to concerts . |
| 15 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |
| 16 | During the full nine months period , pre-tax profits rose 5.8 per cent to $47.4m and turnover was up 17.7 per cent to $533.5m . |
| 17 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 18 | After the additional 18 months exposure of the isolated bones , the skulls and mandibles were still intact , but where any sutures were exposed to the weather they had started to open out . |
| 19 | Once that ceiling is reached no further credits will be allowed until the start of the next six months period . ’ |
| 20 | ( Within the next 6 months work will start on the biggest private house building project in Europe . |
| 21 | Despite increasing debt defaults among enterprises and devastation caused by flooding , in the first six months GNP increased by 6.1 per cent , according to the State Statistical Bureau on July 22 . |
| 22 | And in the next seven months Joel Danjuma groped three others — one twice — despite being warned by bosses at Wigan Royal Infirmary not to examine women unchaperoned , Liverpool Crown Court was told . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't taken a penny in wages since we opened the shop and in the past five months Douglas has n't had a wage either . |
| 25 | There are grounds for qualified optimism because in the past 18 months South Africa has renounced its nuclear ambition , no longer considering that there is a regional threat to the authority of its state . |
| 26 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 27 | Erm from the content of the post bags in the past three months members of this Committee are well aware of the anxieties of the people but the circle , building waste incinerator on the golden edge first of the City . |
| 28 | In the last 18 months Brighton Poets have invigorated the poetry scene by bringing well known guests to read with locally-based poets . |
| 29 | In the last 12 months hooligans have smashed windows , twice stolen her handbag , made off with her television and taken her pension money . |
| 30 | Over the past two months Mr Steinhardt has juggled positions in banks , drugs and oil-service companies to build up a short portfolio of $640m . |