Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [adv] [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he has attempted to be equally frank in fashioning the NES , a task that has been spread over 18 months and umpteen public hearings . |
| 2 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 3 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |
| 4 | Yet these men and women are well off compared to their counterparts in Ghana where subject teams had been given just nine months to produce new curriculum plans and to launch a new series of materials to fit a ‘ new content and structure of education ’ announced by the cabinet . |
| 5 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 6 | We had been married just four months . |
| 7 | Deceased 's father , with Thomas Hawkswell [ sic ] set out as a search party , and eventually traced the ‘ footings ’ of the missing man … to the old Groove house , and found the lifeless body of young Brown lying just outside the dilapidated building , with his faithful dog watching over the remains of its departed master … the deceased had been married about nine months but he , however , resided with his father at Blackton , while his wife lived with her mother at Bowes , pending their securing a farm and home to themselves , a consummation well within sight at the time of this untoward happening — this mysterious interposition , which surely intimates eternity to man … ‘ |
| 8 | The plan had been drafted earlier that month by a four-member ministerial committee [ see p. 38120 ] . |
| 9 | The St Clair had been launched just five months previously and her spick and span shiny newness must have added to the air of wealth and progress . |
| 10 | Feelings were being expressed freely in some quarters that the whole matter had been one of ‘ revenge ’ for support shown to the W family after eight children from the family of fifteen had been taken away three months before . |
| 11 | In the small car-park of the Artilleryman 's Friend he waited by a Vauxhall that had been abandoned there ten months ago . |
| 12 | When Bill left us in October 1964 for Coventry , with whom we had been promoted just six months previously , it was for the then record fee of £35,000 for a goalkeeper and he repaid that fee to the Sky Blues in a distinguished career of 395 matches over the next decade . |
| 13 | Various measures have been taken over recent months to help to improve traffic safety on the sites . |