Example sentences of "for [adj] months [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watford will have their biggest crowd for 22 months and Drysdale , subject of a £700,000 bid from Chelsea , admitted : ‘ Since Graham Taylor left five years ago , there 's been a lot of gloom . |
| 2 | This second tranche of the SAF had been withheld for six months until Sri Lanka had agreed to the implementation of a policy framework paper outlining the conditions for the government 's stabilization programme . |
| 3 | I do n't think so no , but you know I mean , for six months if Christopher 's living here and having to go back at the weekend , for six months he gets an allowance |
| 4 | After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’ |
| 5 | A journalist who had hitched a lift was killed , Fitzroy Maclean ended up in hospital for three months and Randolph Churchill had to be invalided back to England with a back injury . |
| 6 | Lenny Sinken , a lawyer for the Washington-based Christic Institute , wants the mission delayed for 18 months while Nasa studies alternative power sources or arranges for Galileo to leave Earth on an unmanned rocket , less prone to failure than the shuttle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Both were placed on probation for 18 months and Roche , of Lovaine Street , Middlesbrough , was ordered to pay £75 costs . |
| 9 | They met through work and had an affair for five months until Mike , who was divorced , suggested Marianne should leave her husband . |
| 10 | Terence Jowers , of Palm Street , was jailed for 15 months and Hardman , of Lytton Street , both Middlesbrough , was jailed for two years . |
| 11 | It has been an open secret for several months that Hill Samuel was willing to entertain reasonable offers and several possible buyers have apparently shown an interest , but Brewin Dolphin is understood to have been given exclusivity in the negotiations earlier this month . |
| 12 | The central locking does n't work on the boot ; it remained unlocked for two months before Darren realised . |