Example sentences of "[prep] months [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common policy offers combined accident , sickness and unemployment cover for periods ranging between months and three years . |
| 2 | Moulvi Ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered when the Muslims broke open the doors of the mosque , which had been locked for months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 3 | But needed some kind of help : she 'd spoken about it for months before and was utterly thrilled when Jay drawled an interest . |
| 4 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 5 | That seems to me , a very evil thing , if people are kept in prison for months before they 've been found guilty . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 8 | He 's been bothered with constipation for months but the , the , now when he does do it he 's screaming you know ? |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't say they are there for months but when they ca n't find a friend or relative to put them up they have to resort to anywhere to keep out of the wind and rain . |
| 10 | The city had been besieged for months but at last a breach had been forced in one of the walls . |
| 11 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 12 | I keep hearing , supposedly true , stories about the new milkman to school who remained convinced for months that the secretary with whom he had been chatting regularly was the head ! |
| 13 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 14 | Stella Clayton , Office Administrator at Hygiene Leeds has been informing staff and clients for months that she was going swimming with Freddy . |
| 15 | Washington said it knew for months that secret PLO-Israel negotiations were going on in Norway , but was surprised by the level of detail in the agreement hammered out in those Oslo talks . |
| 16 | But there remained the problem which had been gnawing at his mind for months as he waited for his enemy to come home : how was he to get into the castle itself ? |
| 17 | Indeed , the Camilla tape lay dormant in British newsrooms for months until it was published overseas and widely circulated in Britain . |
| 18 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 19 | Many are held for months or years in administrative or pretrial detention , usually incommunicado . |
| 20 | It can be speculated that the informants recruited in Operation Ward may have been known to the IRA for months or even years . |
| 21 | With luck , this procedure can be dragged out for months or even years , with costs mounting in parallel . |
| 22 | Are there friends you have not spoken to for months or even longer ? |
| 23 | The impact threw up vast quantities of material into the upper atmosphere , where it stayed for months or years , blotting out the light of the Sun ; some of this material came from the comet , some from the surface of the Earth . |
| 24 | She or he may be able to suppress the compulsion for months or even years , believing perhaps that there are more worthwhile , less selfish ways to spend one 's time . |
| 25 | Once formed , these fractures may remain open for months or years providing low stress paths where magma may intrude passively with little seismic or ground deformation ; only gravity changes can detect the mass increase . |
| 26 | You would n't expect to see him again for months or weeks anyway — until he 'd spent the lot . |
| 27 | This may be from chronic stress , where our stress tap drips constantly a small amount at a time for months or years , or from sudden stress , when we encounter a specific fear , problem or major life event , which causes the stress tap to turn full on . |
| 28 | A microhabitat can last for months or years . |
| 29 | To make a concordance of a lengthy text by hand calls for months or years of tedious labour . |
| 30 | NOVELISTS WHO HIDE themselves away for months or years usually emerge from their seclusion nervously clutching a manuscript , hand it over to their publishers , and wait by the phone for some kind of reaction . |