Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctor , both you and the TARDIS have been going ga-ga for months . |
| 2 | He feared that shorelines would be repolluted with every storm for months to come . |
| 3 | I 've been going to the Enquirer 's Course for months now ! ’ |
| 4 | In the same way , information about how the National Curriculum Council ( NCC ) came down in favour of more information and factual knowledge in the history curriculum after months of comment and criticism led to a holding of breath as to what precisely would emerge in the shape of revised requirements . |
| 5 | Sparc clone pioneer Opus Systems Inc , retiring from the field after months of struggle ( UX No 406 ) , has sold off its Sparc workstation business to Digital Systems Research , a four-year-old $14m-a-year 135-man Arlington , Virginia company described as a government contractor . |
| 6 | ‘ Without a replacement , the plant could have been out of action for months , reducing Torness 's productive capacity by half and costing the company a fortune in lost revenue . |
| 7 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 8 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 9 | In what military sources described as the fiercest fighting for months , an estimated 40 left-wing guerrillas and 20 soldiers died on May 23-25 in clashes around Dabeiba , in Antioquia province , 600 km north-west of Bogotá in the foothills of the Andes . |
| 10 | He 's been shacking up with a girl from Bonanza 's club for months . |
| 11 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 12 | This was said without fear but with considerable surprise , as most certainly such a thought had not crossed his mind for months . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | And the sores which have plagued his mouth for months have now disappeared . |
| 15 | Journalists in Srebrenica , an area starved of aid for months , said yesterday that rumours of the drops had given new hope to those in despair . |
| 16 | The home itself was pillaged often , and by 1957 both Mary and Terry were on the point of collapse after months existing on half-nights of sleep . |
| 17 | It 's often the result of months of chasing , and is very satisfying when that person is particularly famous , impossibly busy , or known to dislike talk shows . |
| 18 | One of the most disturbing effects of infestation is a thickening of the skin , the result of months — if not years — of scratching . |
| 19 | The Iranian government appeared to have played a major role in facilitating Keenan 's release , an article in the Tehran Times of Aug. 26 claiming that Keenan 's release was " the result of months of indefatigable efforts deployed by Iran , aimed at the freedom of all Western hostages " . |
| 20 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 21 | It is among several which fear possible closure within months unless the new assessment and funding procedures move up several gears . |
| 22 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 23 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 24 | I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months . |
| 25 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 26 | I 've not seen proper sun for months … ’ |
| 27 | He was in a rotten mood for months . |
| 28 | He was the one who had first asked her with rushed ineptitude , despite his having planned the question for months , ‘ Are you ever lonely ? ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes he was away from home for months at a time . |
| 30 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |