Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [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 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 6 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could be done : gradually , in the second half of the six months , he grew in confidence . |
| 9 | Er three months and at six months and then again at sort of the twelve months time |
| 10 | If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 13 | After the influenza of the early months , he contracted further feverish colds , with attendant bronchial trouble , right up to the early summer . |
| 14 | Norman Lamont has learned nothing from the debacle of the past months . |
| 15 | As the law is complex to apply in some cases where the notice period needs to be calculated and perhaps added to the three months limit or , as in the Sen case , the adviser simply got the calculation of the three months wrong , the claim should be presented and the Tribunal asked to consider the facts before exercising its discretion . |
| 16 | The adhesion of Seville , the virtual capital of the early months and now strong in the victory of Bailén , was decisive . |
| 17 | But the shock of John 's kidnap and the strain of the subsequent months had taken its toll on him . |
| 18 | The demise of the 12 months a year man is due mainly to the extra pressure , and greater financial rewards , in both sports . |
| 19 | Mr Roberts 's narrative account of the crucial months grips and convinces . |
| 20 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |
| 21 | In order to protect my interests , I 've included a clause that states that , unless you produce suitable , usable designs , the debt , alas , will remain outstanding and will be required to be repaid in full at the end of the eighteen months . ’ |
| 22 | By the end of the six months , Edouard 's old resolve grew fiercer : he would restore that empire to its former glory , and then he would develop it , increase it , expand it . |
| 23 | At the end of the six months , he had introduced £1,811,996 of ‘ new ’ money to the Royal Bank and achieved 141.25 per cent of target . |
| 24 | On the basis of the information above , calculate what the brothers ' wealth was at the start and end of the six months and what profit had been made . |
| 25 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 26 | Before the end of the six months was up the other judges were trying to steal the devices and put their own people on it . |
| 27 | Towards the end of the 12 months , we will need to review your needs with you and , if appropriate , renew the overdraft arrangements at the same level or at a higher or lower figure . |
| 28 | And I could n't remember whether she said at the end of the three months or |
| 29 | Common sense told her that by immersing herself in work the memory of the last months would recede , and with it would go her bitterness and sense of loss . |
| 30 | Even when the collective paranoia of the early months of 1940 subsided , this attitude prevailed . |