Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the pattern of weathering in small mammals is compared to that of large mammals ( Table 1.3 ) , with stage 1 weathering reached in 18 to 29 months ( plus 24 months in the pellet ) in the prevailing wet climate of central Wales , and stage 2 weathering still progressing after 36 to 48 months ( again with the addition of 24 months in the pellet ) . |
| 2 | This means that it will in practice terminate at the earlier of ( i ) the next AGM of the company and ( ii ) the expiry of 12 months after the passing of the resolution . |
| 3 | He did n't score , but too often we saddle our better strikers with ridiculous demands — as Mark Hughes knows only too well — and in any case with 20 on the board in four months Shearer is well placed to double his career record by the end of the season . |
| 4 | Once the tank is more mature I would gradually build up the stocking over several months aiming for shoals of fish , rather than odd pairs and trios . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that there is widespread protest against the sentence of two months ' imprisonment … passed on the Liverpool Constable who admitted that he had taken four oranges , worth threepence , from a shed in the West Canada Dock … pilfering by the Police is a different matter from the same offence committed by a street urchin . |
| 6 | The court held that on the authorities it was bound to quash the sentence of three months ' imprisonment , Scott L.J . |
| 7 | If I wanted to squander the money in six months or a year , I could do that too , but if I did he would haunt me . ’ |
| 8 | Another example of the city government 's indifference to cultural concerns is its decision to close the Kunsthalle for three months during Documenta in order to install an air-conditioning system . |
| 9 | ‘ It tends to adjourn the case for six months to allow them to get themselves together again . ’ |
| 10 | On Aug. 20 , King Hassan of Morocco called on the UN to delay the referendum by four months ; Morocco was disputing the UN 's " consolidated list " of approximately 74,000 Sahrawis deemed entitled to vote , and was objecting to Manz 's rejection of a Moroccan list of some 120,000 people it claimed were refugees from the territory entitled to vote . |
| 11 | John Hamilton , landscapes project manager , won the contract after 18 months of negotiation . |
| 12 | Yet Treasury Minister Michael Portillo is demanding big cuts in dole pay , possibly even by halving the entitlement to six months . |
| 13 | The other species do not have the same critical hatching requirements as N. battus and so the L3 appear on the pasture within 2-3 months of the eggs being excreted in the faeces . |
| 14 | None of us had been outside the camp for many months and every field seemed infinite and exciting . |
| 15 | If all goes well , the peregrine could be released back into the wild in 3 months time . |
| 16 | Full-time overseas students who become ill after arrival in the UK may obtain National Health Service treatment without charge , provided that they are attending the University for 6 months or more . |
| 17 | All these provisions apply to listed buildings ( of which in 1985 there were 380,000 in England , 33,000 in Scotland , and 10,600 in Wales ) but the secretary of state has power to list a building at any time , and local authorities can serve a ‘ building preservation notice ’ on an unlisted building ; this has the effect of protecting the building for six months , thus giving time for considering whether or not it should be listed . |
| 18 | Three possible sites have been identified and the Mayor , Councillor Seamus Close , expects a decision on the location of the building within six months . |
| 19 | Insurers say a non-smoker is someone who has not puffed the weed for 12 months and does n't plan smoking again . |
| 20 | Colt had known the driver for eleven months , and he knew he was good because the Colonel had told him how the driver had once handled an ambush . |
| 21 | But work can not start on the course for some months . |
| 22 | but I 'll have to , I 'll have to stop doing Wednesdays if I do the course for three months |
| 23 | And this Mr you see , he used to have several , in the course of twelve months , they used to have several bullocks cos he used to keep perhaps , well up to eighty to a hundred bullocks a year for fat , yeah . |
| 24 | Beginning in the first week in August , Sri Lankan fans will , in the course of six months , see Australia , New Zealand and England perform here . |
| 25 | Over the course of two months , Ben had started to eat at meal-times and his mother had been able to introduce more variety into his diet and increase the quantity offered . |
| 26 | This type of case requires a long-term treatment plan using multi-disciplinary resources and requires careful monitoring over the course of many months or perhaps years if the child is to stay with the family . |
| 27 | In the course of eight months 20 per cent of all horses in the country had been killed . |
| 28 | A recent study has shown that with very careful training over the course of five months , babies between 8½ and 10½ months of age can be taught to indicate their need to defecate or pass urine ( Sweets et al . |
| 29 | John Byrne , in The Headhunters , describes the British Steel search in detail : more than a hundred candidates from Europe , North America , South Africa and Australia were interviewed over the course of ten months . |
| 30 | He delivered fifty lectures in the course of three months but , as we have noted , was not a great success . |