Example sentences of "and a half months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later , the battered and bloodstained body of Marie Wilks , 22 and seven and a half months pregnant , was found dumped down an embankment two miles along the motorway . |
| 2 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 3 | After two and a half months , very little outside aid has reached the refugees in southern Iran . |
| 4 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 5 | At the time , Stirling regarded three and a half months as necessary to train SAS personnel . |
| 6 | At four and a half months old , young pigs are taken for slaughter to be sold as pork ; at six months old the remainder meet their end as bacon . |
| 7 | I spent the next four and a half months in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Saddam Hussein 's human shield , with nothing except my hand luggage and the clothes ( and shoes ) that I was wearing when the flight left London . |
| 8 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 9 | Not bad for four and a half months of the University 's time , I suppose . |
| 10 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 11 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 12 | Four and a half months later he was freed on parole , the only member of Charlie Company to have been convicted . |
| 13 | Turnover grew to £2962 million ( 1988 £1973 million ) of which NEI contributed £602 million for seven and a half months . |
| 14 | In 1972 , the press was notified and the house closed to the public for two and a half months . |
| 15 | Compare that attendance figure with the 248,000 visitors over two and a half months to the ‘ Masterworks from Lille ’ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum , an only averagely successful exhibition by their standards ; the 204,000 to ‘ Sisley ’ at the Royal Academy over two and a half months , and even the 52,000 to ‘ Royal Treasures of Sweden ’ over three months , considered a flop by the R.A. |
| 16 | Compare that attendance figure with the 248,000 visitors over two and a half months to the ‘ Masterworks from Lille ’ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum , an only averagely successful exhibition by their standards ; the 204,000 to ‘ Sisley ’ at the Royal Academy over two and a half months , and even the 52,000 to ‘ Royal Treasures of Sweden ’ over three months , considered a flop by the R.A. |
| 17 | She had worked in the supermarket off Mulfords Hill for five and a half months . |
| 18 | Two and a half months after his inauguration , journalists asked the governor what his legislative programme was and were stunned by his reply . |
| 19 | The Ribera exhibition now at the Prado until 25 August was a popular success in Naples ' Castel Sant'Elmo , whose romantic fastnesses suited the shadows of the artist 's style ; in the two and a half months until 17 May it had 80,000 visitors , which in Italy , for a serious exhibition , is a large number . |
| 20 | The duration of the very short-term financing which central banks could draw through the EMCF was increased to three and a half months ( an increase of one month ) . |
| 21 | Whatever one 's interpretation of the events of the next two and a half months , there can be little doubt that they represent an improvised response rather than a matured plan . |
| 22 | At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses . |
| 23 | Immediately before the summer recess , and as one of his last acts before his two and a half months of asylum , Baldwin had devoted two days to receiving an almost unprecedented deputation on the subject . |
| 24 | I think we had something like eight and a half months without rain and there 's the feeling , quite often , that when we get a good summer in this country , people assume that the next summer will be just as good . |
| 25 | Thus PPB was adopted on a totally unrealistic time-scale of some five and a half months from the date of the original instructions . |
| 26 | For two and a half months Saragossa , a poorly fortified town , resisted a good siege train , and when the walls were gone the inhabitants fought in the streets . |
| 27 | I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha . |
| 28 | During the seven and a half months I was on C1 I went to Crown Court twice , and each time I got remanded back into Holloway . |
| 29 | I did seven and a half months in prison : that was more than enough . |
| 30 | Two and a half months earlier Dedjazmatch Abashum had come here with a large force to collect the tribute which the Asaimara were withholding , but he had been afraid to enter Bahdu and had withdrawn . |