Example sentences of "[adj] months [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in eight months Patrick felt one hundred per cent fit . |
| 2 | For two and a half months Saragossa , a poorly fortified town , resisted a good siege train , and when the walls were gone the inhabitants fought in the streets . |
| 3 | I 'm retiring in a few months Daphne said quietly . |
| 4 | For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration . |
| 5 | For a few months Joanne stayed at home , but became desperate to get a job and regain her independence . |
| 6 | Over the next few months Ivy is at the heart of a gruelling Street storyline . |
| 7 | In a few months Rose 's home place and Moran 's house were almost interwoven . |
| 8 | Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern . |
| 9 | Within a few months Peter , too , was offered a job , initially to help Bernard market home furnishing fabrics on a wholesale basis . |
| 10 | In another few months Nahum could see he would have to resign his Governorship , if only to save the expense of his weekly journeys by train . |
| 11 | In the next few months Bathsheba noticed miserably that Gabriel communicated with her as little as possible , and then only by messenger . |
| 12 | In a few months Michael Portillo is likely to announce initial plans to distinguish ‘ essential costs ’ and ‘ avoidable spending ’ in four departments — Health , Education , the Home Office , and Social Security — which account for £110 billion of public spending . |
| 13 | Over the next few months Endill began to hate his schoolwork more and more ; not because it was difficult and boring but because he thought what the teachers taught him was of no use . |
| 14 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 15 | Within a few months George Dundas was himself commander of the Lutine , and on 2nd November transferred in this rank to the sloop Calpe , again newly commissioned , and with this record of command his career was firmly established and his subsequent rise rapid , for in this case Keith had made no mistake in patronising a friend . |
| 16 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 17 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 18 | Devastated , within a few months Kirchner committed suicide at his Davos home where he had lived since World War I. The museum has been designed by the young team of Zurich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer who won the brief in 1989 . |
| 19 | During the next few months Mickie spent much of his time in charge of flight tests on the development of the W-3 at Hanworth and the type testing in Glasgow of the four-cylinder , in-line , engine , later known as the Pixie . |
| 20 | six months Steve . |
| 21 | FOR six months Sarah Monelle had stayed at home with her cherished baby son . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number and size of community care grants in Newcastle upon Tyne in the six months April to October 1991 . |
| 23 | Water Gypsy will be yours — exclusively — for the six months Caroline promised you . ’ |
| 24 | After about six months Stateside and more operations , I was given a medical discharge with 100% disability ’ . |
| 25 | The partnership was not a success , however , and within six months Milburn took it over and amalgamated with Nathan and Sommers . |
| 26 | For example , the reference interest rate might be six months LIBOR plus a quoted margin of 0.25 per cent . |
| 27 | For six months Pakistan 's governments have been preoccupied with intrigue , and it may be that their carefree attitude to running the country is beginning to show up in the figures . |
| 28 | After six months Miloš made a ceremonial entry into Belgrade to parley with the newly appointed Turkish governor , Marasli , who had been given a mandate by the sultan to make concessions in order to pacify the Serbs . |
| 29 | The six months Tom spent in hospital prevented his return to college . |
| 30 | For the past six months Jardines has been arguing that Hong Kong 's largest companies should be granted ‘ exempt listing status ’ . |