Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [num] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 2 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 3 | PSBR for the first seven months hit £20.2bn , up from £8.7bn previously . |
| 4 | To coincide with a survey of his New York Urban Portraits which has opened at Oxford 's Museum of Modern Art ( see p. 15 ) , Marlborough is exhibiting twenty-five oil paintings completed by Bill Jacklin on Coney Island during the last eighteen months ( to 29 November ) . |
| 5 | On Aug. 26 the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the extension of president 's rule in Jammu and Kashmir for a further six months from its expiry on Sept. 2 . |
| 6 | It appeared that the Chinese communists would gain Taiwan within the next six months , which would exacerbate defence anxieties . |
| 7 | Telefonica de Espana SA , with stakes in Chile 's leading telecommunications firms , must discard either its 43.6% stake in Compania de Telefonos CTC or its 20% stake in Entel SA within the next 18 months , the Supreme Court ruled . |
| 8 | P&O European Ferries has operated record-breaking runs on its Dover-Calais service , Sealink has had good increases on all its UK routes and Sally Line passenger numbers from Ramsgate to Dunkirk in the first six months of the year are well up . |
| 9 | The slowdown in the world economy and higher prices in Eastern Europe because of subsidy cuts have both squeezed demand , and the Gulf crisis accounts for a loss of some 350,000 tonnes of sales to Iraq and Kuwait over the past six months . |
| 10 | On his last mission he joined fellow Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev for the last three months of his marathon 11 months in orbit . |
| 11 | THERE has n't been a dull moment at Burston during the last eight months . |
| 12 | First Division newcomers Birmingham City will be without midfielder Ian Rodgerson for the first two months of the season while he recovers from a groin operation . |
| 13 | The ICI reports that the US carried out at least three complex sets of negotiations with representatives of the Noriega government in Washington in the first five months of 1989 . |
| 14 | The new law , passed by the US Senate on Sept. 20 [ see p. 39090 ] and the House of Representatives on Oct. 2 , made it illegal for the subsidiaries of US companies based anywhere in the world to trade with Cuba , and closed US ports to any ship which had called in Cuba within the previous six months . |
| 15 | Instead of cutting income tax , we will make additional resources of at least £1 billion available for investment in the NHS over the next 22 months . |
| 16 | It would then be replaced by The Prince of Wales 's Own Regiment of Yorkshire for a further six months . |
| 17 | No maize gluten has been imported through Rotterdam for the past three months , after Dutch customs started to impose 100% levies on maize gluten which contained maize germ . |
| 18 | All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months . |
| 19 | More than 70 people have died in Strathclyde in the last 15 months as a result of drug-taking . |
| 20 | Janet has worked at Barlaston for the past 18 months and the award she gained has marked the completion of a year-long programme designed to help the Guild 's managers to develop further their marketing and merchandising skills . |
| 21 | In a report issued on May 30 the New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch claimed that there had been a large number of dissident trials in China during the previous six months . |
| 22 | At least 79 people died in police custody in South Africa in the first eight months of 1992 . |
| 23 | Welcoming " the important changes " in South Africa in the previous 20 months , they agreed unanimously to lift some sanctions immediately . |
| 24 | The BBC is planning to show The Leaving of Liverpool within the next two months . |
| 25 | Asked what advances he 'd like to see at Stamford Bridge in the next 12 months , he responded : ‘ I want us to win something . |
| 26 | On June 15 the UN in Geneva launched a fresh consolidated inter-agency appeal to the international community for US$541,000,000 to fund emergency assistance for populations in the Horn of Africa over the next six months . |
| 27 | In addition , about 300,000 eastern German workers were commuting to jobs in western Germany , and 108,000 had emigrated to western Germany in the first five months of 1991 — most of them younger , skilled workers [ see also pp. 37761 ; 38109 ; 38354 ] . |
| 28 | More than 226,000 new private businesses registered in eastern Germany in the first ten months of last year . |
| 29 | The last and greatest battle of the Ruhr was fought in the skies over Germany in the last three months of 1944 , and on some nights there were still 5% losses of aircraft , not to mention men . |
| 30 | A total of 1,200 African migrants had been arrested by the Civil Guard at Algeciras in the first eight months of 1992 . |