Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] months " in BNC.
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1 | When I fourteen months ago . |
2 | I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine . |
3 | and Boots own cleansing lotion for my mascara and that 's it , only buy mascara , eye liner and lipstick and blusher and that 's it and it does me six months of the year |
4 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
5 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
6 | And one lasts me six months . |
7 | ( ‘ I 'd give them six months , survival when they leave here , ’ the doorman had told her . ) |
8 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |
9 | Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth . |
10 | Formally but icily they replied that they " do not desire to interfere with any views which he may have towards improving his position in life , but they expect that he will give them six months ' notice of his intention to resign the mastership of the School " . |
11 | Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each . |
12 | The club continues to occupy the ground under a protected tenancy requiring Butters to give them six months notice to quit but he has changed the locks and was ‘ too busy ’ to allow committee members access to check the pitch on Sunday . |
13 | A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years . |
14 | Not up to date , but she does them six months in advance . |
15 | Soldiers were required to bring with them three months ' supply of provisions , arms , armour and tools for entrenching and other tasks . |
16 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
17 | The continued increase in Population accentuated the hardships for the Peasants : a great variety of taxes to pay ; the price of imported wheat continually rising , when most peasants could manage to grow only enough food to last them three months ; and the vines and potatoes suffered blight and disease . |
18 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
19 | The owners of Rowlands Agricultural Contractors says Lord Beaverbrook employed them three months ago , and a bill for four hundred pounds is still unpaid . |
20 | You 're giving them three months then are n't you ? |
21 | Yeah we 're giving them three months notice , if we can do that quickly |
22 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
23 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
24 | Typically the punter would say : " One of your crew rang me three months ago . |
25 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
26 | Unbeknown to Joan , her husband had contacted Richard with a plea , ‘ Give me three months alone with Joan . |
27 | They 'll only give you three months of Sky programmes . |
28 | After taking the Bar examination you may obtain employment in the legal department of a commercial firm under the aegis of an employed barrister as a ‘ commercial pupil , ’ and this will give you three months ' exemption from pupillage if you afterwards decide to take up practice at the Bar . |
29 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
30 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |