Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 2 | The agreement , which committed both parties to refrain from stepping up arms shipments during the next four months , also called on other arms suppliers , notably Pakistan and Saudi Arabia , to follow suit , stressing that any further assistance to Afghanistan should be purely humanitarian . |
| 3 | At present a budget album studio , Bow Lane have big plans for the next twelve months , including the upgrading of the outboard gear and the installation of a revolutionary new engineer-friendly digital console and direct-to-disc digital recorder . |
| 4 | The Consortium is to review its work of delivering food into southern Sudan and make plans for the next nine months . |
| 5 | Educational sessions must be the key to successful , interesting divisional meetings and I am grateful to the National Educational Committee ( I wo n't single out the Chairman , , that would be unfair ) for being the stimulus which resulted in an increase in educational sessions at meetings during the past twelve months . |
| 6 | Western human rights groups claimed that as many as 2,000 people had been executed by the authorities during the last six months of martial law , and many more were being held in detention . |
| 7 | You ca n't wear gloves — there is no grip … there is so much dust around the grinding machines — one of them caught fire five times during the past three months … then there is a fellow going around with a bottle of water . |
| 8 | Interviews also took place with parents in 10 of the 25 cases selected for follow-up.The study looked at cases during the first six months after the initial case conference . |
| 9 | Wood carver Donald Foster has spent more than 1,000 hours during the past 12 months restoring the altar of the English Martyrs Catholic Church at Sleights near Whitby . |
| 10 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 11 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 12 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 13 | The first was an intention to treat analysis in which the values at the last visit of three pivotal outcome measures — that is , urinary albumin and sodium excretion and mean arterial pressure — obtained from all included subjects during the last three months of their follow up were carried forward . |
| 14 | Are you sure you have n't been taking any drugs , tablets , medicines of any sort — ’ she shook her head violently , but refused to meet his gaze ‘ — or any antibiotics during the last six months ? ’ |
| 15 | The United States based organization Asia Watch reported in May 1991 that there had been a large number of secret trials of dissidents during the previous six months . |
| 16 | Although there were several disputes during the next twenty months , it was not until the coal mines were formally handed back to the coal owners , on 31 March 1921 , that serious conflict ensued . |
| 17 | It 's head and shoulders above the glut of uninspired Fab Four and Stones covers of the last 18 months or so , but Shabba fans and the ragga fraternity in general are almost universal in their condemnation of the record . |
| 18 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 19 | The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee ran the national campaign for recruits in the first eighteen months of the war , through party rather than national channels . |
| 20 | In a report to next month 's General Assembly , the Kirk 's Board of Social Responsibility — the largest voluntary social work agency in Scotland — says it spent £1.5 million from its own reserves in the past 17 months to keep its 42 eventide homes going . |
| 21 | She followed this advice and had no further attacks of herpes in the next six months . |
| 22 | Japan Computer Corp says it will start marketing three R3000a-based X terminals on the first of September , and expects to sell 9,000 units in the first 12 months of sales : The top-of-the-line Global XC20 includes a 20-inch colour screen , the XC17 a 17-inch colour screen and the low-end XG a 17-inch gray-scale monitor . |
| 23 | The export of motor cars in the past nine months is 90 per cent . |
| 24 | The bank , with 60 per cent of the ‘ retail acquisition ’ market , plans to install 20,000 terminals in shops in the next 18 months . |
| 25 | The documents lodged at the Newport County Court tell a grim story : losses of £148,000 in 1991 , followed by further losses in the first five months of this year of £127,000 ; £2,309,993 worth of liabilities ; assets at a net book value of £1,773,115 ; and a practice on a forced sale worth just £232,601 . |
| 26 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 27 | The average cost per square foot provided here are national averages based on actual costs incurred by clients of leading package supplier Design and Materials Ltd , all of whom have completed their homes in the past six months . |
| 28 | The government agreed to clear US$90,000,000 of official arrears on external payments by the end of March 1991 , and to allow the island 's commercial banks to clear a further US$157,000,000 in private-sector arrears over the next 30 months through a series of bond issues . |
| 29 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 30 | My experience with fifty millesimal potencies over the past nine months , with approximately 400 patients , has proved to me that Hahnemann was correct . |