Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] months [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
| 2 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 3 | There 's a lot of stuff happening nationally which could affect us , and for the sake of eighteen months we might be as well waiting . |
| 4 | Over a period of two months we released some 300 000 into a small village in Upper Volta in West Africa . |
| 5 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |
| 6 | ‘ If the Governor set aside four hours every day for two months he could spend a minute on each decision package , not enough time to read it , let alone make an analysis of its merits ’ ( Anthony , 1977 , p. 19 ) . |
| 7 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 8 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 9 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 10 | FOLLOWING our business success in recent months we welcome these new staff and wish them every success in their careers with CCG . |
| 11 | At the end of four months it was discovered that he was only just sixteen . |
| 12 | At the end of six months they had sold 300 of the 400 beds for £150 each . |
| 13 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 14 | Take that a step further , after the end of twelve months you then lose this fifteen thousand |
| 15 | If at the end of three months you decide that this is too elaborate for you or you 'd like to , if you need to see a week at a glance , er , you just call my office , send back the pages you have n't used , and we would exchange those er , for the equivalent in a different format . |
| 16 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 17 | After attending a regular two-hour class for seven months she wrote : |
| 18 | Even if the racket stays in the cupboard for six months it will still need a restring — the strings will have stretched and gone ‘ dead ’ . |
| 19 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 20 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 21 | ‘ Doing that sort of time at 15 months she could turn out to be anything . ’ |