Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |
| 2 | It can be seen that there is an initial 20% mortality during the first three months in those randomised to surgery , with virtually no further deaths occurring during the next 24 months . |
| 3 | Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 . |
| 4 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 5 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 6 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 7 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 8 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 9 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 10 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 11 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 12 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 13 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | they would require adjust because we 're then looking towards the next twelve months |
| 15 | Pearce 's request for new terms could have been sparked by transfer fees and wages rocketing in the last 12 months . |
| 16 | Nearly a third have introduced restrictions , or further restrictions , on smoking in the past 12 months . |
| 17 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 18 | ‘ We will be looking over the next few months to see what longer term solution can be devised . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In addition , the performance of the Ladybird Disney range must rate as the single most dramatic development in children 's book retailing over the past 12 months . ’ |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the Bank of England published a 45-page document outlining its view of the progress made on underlying inflation and where it is heading over the subsequent 24 months . |
| 21 | At a Sept. 5 news conference Afewerki accused France , Egypt and Saudi Arabia of fostering " conflict on the borders and the blackmail we have been facing during the past three months " . |
| 22 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 23 | BP Norway is poised to be the group 's centre of expertise for high-temperature , high-pressuring drilling over the next six months , commented BPX chief drilling engineer Neil Booth . |
| 24 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 25 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 26 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 27 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 28 | ‘ This has been a big exercise , ’ said Crawford , ‘ but it is all nearing completion now and the new systems should be up and running during the next six months . ’ |
| 29 | What 've you been doing in the last five months that 's put on the weight ? |
| 30 | He had no idea the club would prove so popular — with 750 members joining in the first 5 months . |