Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [adj] months [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first three months Barfield is officially the ER businesses ' proprietor and holds any surplus funds they generate . |
| 2 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The calendar of events form for the next six months period which should be completed and returned before 2 MARCH 1990 . |
| 5 | For the next 16 months Blake commuted daily between his house in Bickley , Kent and MI6 's headquarters in London . |
| 6 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 7 | For the next three months Walsh , Hayling , Horsley , Everett and the ever-present Olwen raced around the country in the black Jaguar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During the next nine months Omar more than justified Sandford 's strong recommendation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | During the next three months Alexander spent all his hard-earned money visiting the theatre , art galleries or going to concerts . |
| 13 | During the next few months Mickie spent much of his time in charge of flight tests on the development of the W-3 at Hanworth and the type testing in Glasgow of the four-cylinder , in-line , engine , later known as the Pixie . |
| 14 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once that ceiling is reached no further credits will be allowed until the start of the next six months period . ’ |
| 17 | The community was to be governed according to the principle of ‘ Pantisocracy ’ — a word invented by Coleridge meaning ‘ equal rule by all ’ — and in the course of the next few months Pantisocracy in its broad details was discussed and argued into existence . |
| 18 | ( Within the next 6 months work will start on the biggest private house building project in Europe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy . |
| 22 | In the next few months Bathsheba noticed miserably that Gabriel communicated with her as little as possible , and then only by messenger . |
| 23 | In the last 18 months Brighton Poets have invigorated the poetry scene by bringing well known guests to read with locally-based poets . |
| 24 | In the last 12 months hooligans have smashed windows , twice stolen her handbag , made off with her television and taken her pension money . |
| 25 | Erm looking at the employ sorry looking at the output side er the question looking at trends and output over the last four months shows that in all the four regions manufacturers say that output has increased over the preceding four months . |
| 26 | Over the last four months readers have responded magnificently to the invitation to send in drawings or paintings relating to my series of articles . |
| 27 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 28 | OVER THE NEXT NINE MONTHS Wolfgang stayed at home in Salzburg , learning arithmetic ( which he enjoyed ) , Latin , and Italian in preparation for the next trip . |
| 29 | Over the next few months Ivy is at the heart of a gruelling Street storyline . |
| 30 | Over the next few months supplies of Intel 's new Pentium microprocessor will trickle on to the market . |