Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although orders are slow to come through , a large number of European licences are due for renewal within 18 months , ‘ which represent a significant source of potential revenue ’ . |
| 2 | The death of Kenyatta in 1978 , with no constitutional change accomplished , left the way open for Daniel Arap Moi to take over the presidency and to be confirmed in a national election as president within three months . |
| 3 | So , night after night for six months , I had this door banged against my head . ’ |
| 4 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 5 | In any event , Heinz was off work for two months before embarking on a steady descent of menial jobs , ending up as a kitchen cleaner . |
| 6 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 7 | STEWART Renton was amazed when doctors told him he had broken his leg in two places — and he could expect to be off work for three months ! |
| 8 | The blaze caused extensive damage at the disused English Martyrs High School at Orford , Warrington scene of numerous fires and acts of vandalism in recent months . |
| 9 | She had completed the agreed term of admission of two months and in accordance with the rules of the institution , the parish officers were asked to remove her ; before they could do so however , Mary Storey had died . |
| 10 | Friends drove him away to his first night of freedom in twenty months . |
| 11 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 12 | Thousands of fundamentalist supporters , all of them male , marched on the presidential palace on April 20 , demanding the dissolution of parliament within three months and the introduction of sharia ( Islamic law ) . |
| 13 | In the new Act the landlord can take the tenant to court for repossession for : 1 Non-payment of rent for 3 months 2 Persistently late payment of rent . |
| 14 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 15 | The Manchester United winger is expected to be out of football for two months suffering from tiredness , depression , and persistent headaches . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 17 | Eric Cantona is in the squad less than a fortnight after suffering a hamstring injury that was expected to keep him out of action for two months . |
| 18 | Early estimates are that he will be out of action for five months . |
| 19 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 20 | Falconer , out of action for six months after a knee operation , said : ‘ I think I was due a goal . |
| 21 | His call-up was made more pressing by the knee injury suffered by David Burrows in the Coca-Cola Cup draw with Crystal Palace , which has put him out of action for three months . |
| 22 | Gary Owers ( midfield ) : Back in contention for a place at Wembley after a serious pelvic injury kept him out of action for three months , the England Under-21 international 's non-stop running could be a great asset . |
| 23 | You 've had your heart attack , you 've been out of action for three months and yet , when you talk to people , when the pollsters go out with their clipboards , they say , Who do you think is most likely apart from the Prime Minister , to lead the Tory party ? |
| 24 | He is now back full-time on the circuit after breaking an arm in a car crash in 1990 , which put him out of action for 12 months . |
| 25 | The outcome was none the less a climbdown for the government , which was obliged to drop its original plan to outlaw strikes in all sectors of industry for 15 months , amid deep divisions among parliamentarians over the extent of the powers to be granted . |
| 26 | Legislation approved by the US Congress in November 1990 required the freezing of aid within six months if " a pattern of systematic gross violations of human rights " was occurring . |
| 27 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 28 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 29 | From the literature it is not clear whether prolongation of therapy beyond four months yield a higher response rate . |
| 30 | Despite the murmurs of anxiety over recent months , none of us considered realistically it could possibly happen . |