Example sentences of "a [adj] eight months " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 2 | I was promoted to assistant manageress in the clothes shop , and worked a further eight months before leaving to have my first child . |
| 3 | The changes , effectively extending military rule for a further eight months , were not unexpected in the wake of the annulment of presidential primary elections on the grounds of widespread electoral malpractice , and the subsequent dissolution of the leadership of the two political parties [ p. 39130 ] . |
| 4 | Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Don Giovanni received its first performance in February 1787 during the Venice Carnival , a mere eight months before the Prague première of Mozart 's version . |
| 5 | Neil Kinnock took eight years to ditch the views of his mentor Aneurin Bevan , John Smith has taken a mere eight months to ditch those of Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 6 | The training , which took her a bare eight months , was a strenuous business , including 52 hours of flying ( 13 of them solo ) , and culminating in four written exams , on air law , navigation and meteorology radio-telecommunications , and air-frames and engines . |
| 7 | The former world featherweight champion has endured a traumatic eight months since the High Court awarded ex-manager Barney Eastwood damages following McGuigan 's criticism of the ill-fated defence against Texan Steve Cruz in June 1986 . |
| 8 | The blockade held for an amazing eight months before the army broke it up . |