Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] previous [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new law , passed by the US Senate on Sept. 20 [ see p. 39090 ] and the House of Representatives on Oct. 2 , made it illegal for the subsidiaries of US companies based anywhere in the world to trade with Cuba , and closed US ports to any ship which had called in Cuba within the previous six months . |
| 2 | In a report issued on May 30 the New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch claimed that there had been a large number of dissident trials in China during the previous six months . |
| 3 | Welcoming " the important changes " in South Africa in the previous 20 months , they agreed unanimously to lift some sanctions immediately . |
| 4 | The agency said that 15 relief workers had been killed in Ethiopia in the previous seven months . |
| 5 | The Liberian crisis , which had caused an estimated 700,000 refugees to flee into Côte d'Ivoire , Guinea and Sierra Leone in the previous 16 months , continued to preoccupy leaders of the 16 members of ECOWAS , concerned for the stability of their region . |
| 6 | According to the report , over 100 people had been detained and possibly tortured in East Timor during the previous six months for their alleged involvement in pro-independence activities . |
| 7 | On Sept. 23 the human rights organization Amnesty International alleged that government troops had killed at least 300 people in Juba in the previous three months . |
| 8 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |