Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen . |
| 2 | ‘ For me , being single-minded meant that for the eight months of the racing season every other aspect of my life was put on hold , ’ Vitor began , ‘ apart from the construction company . |
| 3 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 4 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
| 5 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 6 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 7 | So you could find that in a few months ’ time he 's your boss . ’ |
| 8 | The actual outcome was that in the twelve months ending in December 1986 the money supply rose by 109 per cent ( the highest on record ) and the cost-of-living index rose by 90 per cent . |
| 9 | It is a sobering statistic that in the twelve months either side of Owens ' triumph there were twenty-six lynchings of blacks in the USA . |
| 10 | We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming . |
| 11 | It is very evident that in the early months of the Truman administration the new US president was far from settled in his views on foreign policy , not least because of the divided counsels of those around him . |
| 12 | He said that in the five months to the end of January , the group had sold 223 houses — only two more than at that stage in the previous 12 months . |
| 13 | As Alan Cantwell , the intermediates manager , pointed out ‘ any spillages can be controlled in minutes ’ and he was also keen to point out that in the 18 months since it was commissioned , ‘ no spillages have occurred ’ . |
| 14 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the 15 months since he got his job 840,000 people have lost their jobs ? |
| 15 | ITN had said that in the 12 months before the ban was imposed , 0.01 per cent of air time would have been affected and these items could have been recast into a form which complied with the directives . |
| 16 | Why is it that in the 12 months to September this year unemployment in Europe rose by 7 per cent. , but in the United Kingdom it rose by 40 per cent ? |
| 17 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 18 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |
| 19 | It all makes many believe that over the coming months share prices will drop below the levels at which they opened 1991 . |