Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] months [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 2 | After the additional 18 months exposure of the isolated bones , the skulls and mandibles were still intact , but where any sutures were exposed to the weather they had started to open out . |
| 3 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |
| 4 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 5 | The tenant should ensure that a reasonable cut-off date is inserted and the tenant could try to reduce the suggested six months period to three months . |
| 6 | During the full nine months period , pre-tax profits rose 5.8 per cent to $47.4m and turnover was up 17.7 per cent to $533.5m . |
| 7 | Despite increasing debt defaults among enterprises and devastation caused by flooding , in the first six months GNP increased by 6.1 per cent , according to the State Statistical Bureau on July 22 . |
| 8 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 9 | For the first three months Barfield is officially the ER businesses ' proprietor and holds any surplus funds they generate . |
| 10 | The company , which sold a record 508 cattle through its Electronic Auctions Systems Europe franchise on Thursday , has given the necessary six months notice to the franchise-holding ANM Group , Aberdeen . |
| 11 | The Air/Sea Rescue training school at RAF Mountbatten , Plymouth provided the type of training course relevant to our needs and they kindly consented to a selected few of our senior crew members attending the school for the necessary three months session . |
| 12 | Over the past two months Mr Steinhardt has juggled positions in banks , drugs and oil-service companies to build up a short portfolio of $640m . |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't taken a penny in wages since we opened the shop and in the past five months Douglas has n't had a wage either . |
| 14 | Over the past 14 months Dr Rhidian Morris and his partners in a fundholding practice in Devon have piloted contracts for all aspects of community care . |
| 15 | There are grounds for qualified optimism because in the past 18 months South Africa has renounced its nuclear ambition , no longer considering that there is a regional threat to the authority of its state . |
| 16 | For the past 18 months Norman has had intense physiotherapy and speech therapy to maximise the use of muscles he can move . |
| 17 | Over the past eighteen months Cadbury and Save The Children have worked very successfully together , staging three strollathons sponsoring nationwide pantomimes and running a promotion on chocolate bars . |
| 18 | Over the past six months statistics have been gathered by a new Europe-wide service . |
| 19 | Over the past six months statistics have been gathered by a new Europe-wide service but have not been published until yesterday . |
| 20 | For the past six months Jardines has been arguing that Hong Kong 's largest companies should be granted ‘ exempt listing status ’ . |
| 21 | The UK shares market has been one of the most buoyant in the world and over the past 12 months £80 billion has flooded in from investors . |
| 22 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 23 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 24 | Erm from the content of the post bags in the past three months members of this Committee are well aware of the anxieties of the people but the circle , building waste incinerator on the golden edge first of the City . |
| 25 | The Training Department has also been involved in CCG 's expansion and over the past three months trainers have been delivering induction courses for our openings at SG Warburg , British Gas Heysham , Sunderland schools and recent public sector contracts . |
| 26 | Over the past three months Bristol Babcock in my constituency has received export orders of £10 million . |
| 27 | Erm looking at the employ sorry looking at the output side er the question looking at trends and output over the last four months shows that in all the four regions manufacturers say that output has increased over the preceding four months . |
| 28 | Over the last four months readers have responded magnificently to the invitation to send in drawings or paintings relating to my series of articles . |
| 29 | In the last 18 months Brighton Poets have invigorated the poetry scene by bringing well known guests to read with locally-based poets . |
| 30 | During the last twelve months subjects that would have been considered taboo , in this Country , have received widespread media attention . |