Example sentences of "it for [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 2 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 3 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 4 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 5 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 6 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 7 | No sound had emerged from it for six months : spare parts were hard to get , Dynmouth Hi-Fi Boutique informed him . |
| 8 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 9 | So we 're giving em it for six months . |
| 10 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 11 | But we do n't know how long it 'll be , before get any money coming in , and if you go on to family credit , you get it for six months , so that 'll be our wages . |
| 12 | I got it for six months , te |
| 13 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 14 | The result was the partnership which bought Twr-y-Felin in St David 's and ran it for 18 months until Phil moved on to pursue other interests . |
| 15 | There is somebody in that company , who 's probably been with it for nine months , who knows it backwards and who 's capable of playing the role . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ The Home Secretary is responsible for immigration and has made speeches about it for many months . |
| 17 | Then I could keep it for many months . |
| 18 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 19 | So , stick with it for four months , and you 'll have all the information you need to look like an expert down at the pub ! |
| 20 | I mean , I did it for four months and then I could n't do any more , I just think I mean , I know Amanda and Claire were a lot younger then and I think it 's difficult when they are they 're younger . |
| 21 | But you have to leave it for like months . |
| 22 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 23 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 24 | If you require an overdraft for working capital purposes , we will normally agree it for 12 months , with the amount based on your cash flow forecast for that period . |
| 25 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 26 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 27 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 28 | Admirable as such schemes seemed from St Petersburg , they looked very different on the ground : it was reported from one ‘ city ’ designated an administrative hub that no one had entered or left it for three months . |
| 29 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 30 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |