Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] month [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 2 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 3 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 4 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 5 | It followed several months of public debate led by the DPP over calls for Taiwan independence , theoretically punishable under sedition laws as advocating secession [ see also p. 38291 ] . |
| 6 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 7 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 8 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 9 | It took six months for us to talk the owner into agreeing to let us rent the place . |
| 10 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 11 | It took six months for The Housemartins , the fourth best band in Hull , to turn up . |
| 12 | It took five months of telephone calls , letters and faxes to Dr Neil Sontag , before a replacement set arrived , only to find that they were the same , unusable version . |
| 13 | It took several months for that to come home and safe . |
| 14 | It lasts eight months in all , which longer than for any NATO force . |
| 15 | The P G C is a difficult course to fill , really , for the people who are organising it , because although it 's called a one-year course , in fact it lasts eight months in practice , and there are so many aspects that have to be fitted in something has to go . |
| 16 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 17 | A rainforest receives at least 4,000mm of rain every year , 200mm of it falling each month for ten months . |