Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [adj] months " in BNC.

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1 My mother , not believing in idleness and thinking of the long months that lay ahead of me , decided I should learn embroidery .
2 Had she imagined the violence of the previous months ?
3 Later , those who were to piece together the events at the camp of the early months of that year , from the time of snow till the approach of spring , were to wonder what was the ambition of Michael Holly , prisoner of Hut 2 in Zone I of Camp 3 in the Dubrovlag complex .
4 During the course of the coming months , the terms of what Henry could obtain in concessions from the French ( or at least from that branch of the body politic which was , at that moment , dominant ) were worked out .
5 Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides .
6 After the influenza of the early months , he contracted further feverish colds , with attendant bronchial trouble , right up to the early summer .
7 Norman Lamont has learned nothing from the debacle of the past months .
8 The adhesion of Seville , the virtual capital of the early months and now strong in the victory of Bailén , was decisive .
9 But the shock of John 's kidnap and the strain of the subsequent months had taken its toll on him .
10 Mr Roberts 's narrative account of the crucial months grips and convinces .
11 This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months .
12 Even when the collective paranoia of the early months of 1940 subsided , this attitude prevailed .
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