Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [adj] 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 past six months Jardines has been arguing that Hong Kong 's largest companies should be granted ‘ exempt listing status ’ . |
| 3 | For the past 18 months Norman has had intense physiotherapy and speech therapy to maximise the use of muscles he can move . |
| 4 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Over the past six months statistics have been gathered by a new Europe-wide service . |
| 16 | Over the past six months statistics have been gathered by a new Europe-wide service but have not been published until yesterday . |
| 17 | Over the past 14 months Dr Rhidian Morris and his partners in a fundholding practice in Devon have piloted contracts for all aspects of community care . |
| 18 | Over the past eighteen months Cadbury and Save The Children have worked very successfully together , staging three strollathons sponsoring nationwide pantomimes and running a promotion on chocolate bars . |
| 19 | The UK shares market has been one of the most buoyant in the world and over the past 12 months £80 billion has flooded in from investors . |
| 20 | Over the past three months Bristol Babcock in my constituency has received export orders of £10 million . |
| 21 | The Training Department has also been involved in CCG 's expansion and over the past three months trainers have been delivering induction courses for our openings at SG Warburg , British Gas Heysham , Sunderland schools and recent public sector contracts . |