Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 2 | And Tony from Telford says , I spent years combing my hair over my bald patch , it stopped four months ago and I 'm much much happier . |
| 3 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 4 | Priced at from $240 it ships next month . |
| 5 | It ships next month . |
| 6 | The UK , Cambridge-based firm says demand has been generated by volume sales of the low-end SparcClassic workstation , which does not run earlier versions of Sun 's operating system : it ships this month priced at £140 — £200 for a development pack . |
| 7 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 8 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 9 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 10 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 11 | That 's now open , it opened last month . |
| 12 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 13 | It finished two months ahead of schedule , a bonus for both motorists and the contractors . |
| 14 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 15 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 16 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 17 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 18 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 19 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 20 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 21 | It opens next month and is likely to join Colchester Zoo , Clacton Pier and Audley End House as one of the county 's most popular attractions . |
| 22 | It followed several months of public debate led by the DPP over calls for Taiwan independence , theoretically punishable under sedition laws as advocating secession [ see also p. 38291 ] . |
| 23 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 24 | Weaver had a Council flat , but let it go three months back . |
| 25 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 26 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 27 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 28 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 29 | It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme . |
| 30 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |