Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have n't read anything official from Elland Road for the past few months , so I 'm presuming that this season coming we wo n't need premier cards to go to away games . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Welcoming " the important changes " in South Africa in the previous 20 months , they agreed unanimously to lift some sanctions immediately . |
| 9 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 10 | The closure of Bairdwear at Aycliffe brings the total number of textile job losses in South Wear Durham and Cleveland over the past 12 months to more than 1,000 . |
| 11 | In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government . |
| 12 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 13 | In Oxford for the past 18 months , it 's taken a peculiar form when youths perform stunts in high performance cars in front of crowds . |
| 14 | ‘ You bastards have been over in France for the past three months , sitting in the sunshine and screwing all those French bints . ’ |
| 15 | Rocastle 's arrival at relegation-threatened Forest would re-awaken Arsenal 's interest in Irish star Keane , an exceptional midfielder and unhappy at being u Forest supporters , already outraged at the departure of Des Walker , Darren Wassall , Steve Sutton and Teddy Sheringham over the past 12 months , would go wild but may be appeased if Clough spent the Keane money on a defender and a striker . |
| 16 | , Scientists at the Dutch Central Veterinary Institute claim to have isolated the cause of the Mystery Reproductive Syndrome ( MRS ) disease which has been sweeping pig herds across much of western Europe over the past few months , leading to the loss of up to 10 per cent of offspring in some herds . |
| 17 | Thanks to Lupus 's letters and Nithard 's Histories , it is possible to identify a dozen others who threw in their lot with Charles during the difficult first months of his reign : from Francia , Counts Adalgar ( of Thérouanne ) and Egilo , and the Seneschal Adalard ( whose brother Count Gerald of Paris had defected to Lothar — perhaps the brothers had agreed to hedge their bets ) . |
| 18 | Yesterday Miss Stott 's grandparents said they believed she and her boyfriend , Peter Ellis , originally from Tyneside but working as a computer analyst in New Zealand for the past 18 months , had gone on the three-week holiday in order to get engaged and to share their love of jazz . |
| 19 | The agency said that 15 relief workers had been killed in Ethiopia in the previous seven months . |
| 20 | The Liberian crisis , which had caused an estimated 700,000 refugees to flee into Côte d'Ivoire , Guinea and Sierra Leone in the previous 16 months , continued to preoccupy leaders of the 16 members of ECOWAS , concerned for the stability of their region . |
| 21 | According to the report , over 100 people had been detained and possibly tortured in East Timor during the previous six months for their alleged involvement in pro-independence activities . |
| 22 | The Independent of March 2 reported that a " large number " of Vietnamese combat units had been deployed in Cambodia during the past two months to halt Khmer Rouge advances . |
| 23 | Analysis of the radioactivity within the seaweed indicates that it had been discharged from Sellafield within the past 12 months or so . |
| 24 | On Sept. 23 the human rights organization Amnesty International alleged that government troops had killed at least 300 people in Juba in the previous three months . |
| 25 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 26 | SOMALIA : Clan warfare and anarchic violence have led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people in Somalia over the past 18 months , according to an Amnesty International report , Somalia : A Human Rights Disaster , published on 5 August . |
| 27 | The decision to increase American aid reflected the ‘ dramatic changes in Poland over the past two months ’ , said Mr Fitzwater . |
| 28 | A new brand of cigarettes called ‘ Death ’ has been selling in Los Angeles for the past two months . |
| 29 | Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin . |