Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff must issue a summons for directions after he has given three months ' notice under Ord 37 , r10 that he intends to apply for further damages . |
| 2 | Martin has dropped next month 's Grand Prix tennis at Wembley from his schedule but on sporting grounds . |
| 3 | Powersafe has a UK-wide network of branches and its team of electrical engineers has undergone six months of specialist training . |
| 4 | The country has had 41 months of below average rainfall . |
| 5 | American , other analysts noted , has had several months to prepare contingencies for a hostile takeover attempt , and probably has a restructuring deal of its own waiting in the wings . |
| 6 | It has seemed this month as if Ronald Reagan never left town , as President Bush decisively buried his lingering image as a White House wimp with a series of interventions that stamped his own authority on US foreign policy , and America 's will upon the world . |
| 7 | Robert Layton has spent five months preparing the British , French , Spanish and Portugese paperwork that will allow him to make two or three landings a day as he hops across Europe in a plane that can carry just ten gallons of fuel . |
| 8 | Rover has spent 18 months restyling the bodywork to give the car a more chunky up to date look . |
| 9 | In an unusual joint venture with industry , a group of young trainee managers from Exxon Chemicals ' offices in Europe has spent four months in Cameroon , carrying out practical conservation work on WWF 's Korup rainforest project . |
| 10 | His team has spent six months investigating the alleged leaks of security files to loyalist terror groups . |
| 11 | Lancastrian Peter Ellis has spent 12 months at the town 's Arts Centre working with everyday objects and fashioning them into works of art for his Funny Energy exhibition . |
| 12 | Peter has spent several months fine tuning the features of the service , and is now marketing it directly . |
| 13 | You might answer that pressures on existing JS Journal staff prevent the crossword being a regular monthly item — but there must be many JS staff [ like myself ] who have experience of compiling crosswords , and I am sure that we could provide a steady supply of crosswords ready for publication — with the proviso , of course , that the person who has compiled that month 's crossword is not eligible to send in an entry to the competition . |
| 14 | That was before his shattering injury that has taken 16 months off his career . |
| 15 | The achievement has taken 17 months and covers nearly every aspect of Atlas Copco 's business including installation , service schemes , training and inspection testing . |
| 16 | It all left yesterday 's would-be refugees furious at the latest delay in an evacuation that has taken two months to negotiate . |
| 17 | The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders . |
| 18 | The in-depth report by Philip Mackie , epidemiologist with Darlington Health Authority , has taken seven months to complete and reveals head injuries and poisoning among the most common type of childhood accident . |
| 19 | It has taken several months of cajoling to persuade the enigmatic political advisor Philip Gould to give an interview . |
| 20 | The report has taken 6 months to prepare . |
| 21 | The report has taken 20 months . |
| 22 | Estate agents right across the country are swinging back into action and The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors says that rising activity has continued this month . |
| 23 | For Training Officer , Sandra Brockman , it has meant 18 months of hard work compiling the recipe cards . |
| 24 | The survey , which had been scheduled for the summer , has started two months early and is expected to bear fruit by mid-June . |
| 25 | Yet the mega-buck manager of Ewood could have had little complaint — Rovers lost to a side who played revivalist football of a kind manager Howard Kendall has waited 22 months to see . |
| 26 | It 's been a voyage of discovery for all the crews ; a personal and physical challenge which has lasted 8 months . |
| 27 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 28 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd had six months of worrying whether everything was going to be all right — what Joseph would look like , or whether he would be all there , ’ says Leslie , her relief still evident . |
| 30 | He 'd spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial and served 6 months of a 10 year sentence . |