Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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1 | Body weight was stable during the three months preceding the study . |
2 | Finally , although support for the strike call was not very strong across the four local ballots held in the ‘ in-between ’ group , solidarity was high in the early months , and remained so in Durham and Northumberland until the dispute 's end ; in the other three fields , however , support waned , with most Cumberland miners back at work by the end of 1984 , alongside about half of their contemporaries in North Derbyshire and Lancashire . |
3 | He was 68 years old in the early months of 1918 , when the experience of living through an air-raid proved too much for his system and he suffered a stroke . |
4 | You see my visions for qualitative are slightly different to the four months at the moment , and I feel perhaps could exchange Q P16 for the control procedures to be a longer procedure but to have everything covering the project plan in progress monitoring through to quality control procedures for just the quality . |
5 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
6 | I did get a bit paranoid for a few months , stopped using the tube . |
7 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
8 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
9 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
10 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
11 | Rot , either in the glue or the wood or both , was only too likely within a few months . |
12 | Third quarter net profit was up 15.2% at $1.0m on sales of $56.1m , up 2.2% , with net for the nine months at $2.7m . |
13 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
14 | Despite the bid costs , Amstrad was able to report a bounce back into the black for the six months to December . |
15 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
16 | The omens for the new state were not encouraging in the first months of its existence . |
17 | There is plenty of opportunity for practice , and summer sketching parties beckon those who prefer not to be studio-bound in the warmer months . |
18 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
19 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
20 | The majority of " Paris Club " of Western creditor governments agreed on Dec. 18 to a debt-forgiveness arrangement which would erase half of the US$735 million of debt repayment due in the 18 months to March 1993 . |
21 | While Cameroun 's economic activity returned to normal within a few months , the experience of the three attempted coups , and particularly of the last , undermined the sense of renewal which Paul Biya 's elevation to the presidency had achieved . |
22 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
23 | NEARLY 2,000 businesses went bust in the three months following the Tories ' election victory . |
24 | The industrial scene thus looked much more alarming in the early months of 1 978 . |
25 | Madeline and I will be kept very busy over the next months as we visit the pilot centres to attend key events in their validation or approval processes . |
26 | The second half of Danby 's remarks alludes to the revived party tensions which were already becoming apparent in the early months of 1689 , especially over the religious issue . |
27 | ‘ Yes , a lot of pregnant women feel hot in the last months , ’ he agreed , still studying her closely . |
28 | Although progress in passing European single market laws was painfully slow during the first months of the French presidency , Paris hands over to Dublin this month amid a last-minute rush of important agreements . |
29 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
30 | He started his business at the lower end of the market by chartering whole trains and bringing Lancashire pensioners to small south coast hotels out of season , when they helped to retain key staff and keep the hotel doors open throughout the quiet months . |