Example sentences of "[verb] for six month " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction . |
| 2 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 3 | They 're disallowed for six months and then coming and |
| 4 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 5 | It is also worth while examining the Table for differences between the two time points ; one might have expected that those sustained at home for 12 months would possess fewer ‘ home care disadvantages ’ at referral than those sustained for six months . |
| 6 | Stacked for six months this will provide a useful ingredient to dig into the ground in the autumn , either forked in when planting or used as a mulch . |
| 7 | Ten patients were treated for six months ; six patients withdrew because of adverse effects . |
| 8 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 9 | The formal opening in December 1644 of the congress at Munster was delayed for six months , at least partly by quarrels over ceremonial . |
| 10 | She gained some 25lb ( 11kg ) in weight during pregnancy , half of which she lost whilst breast-feeding for six months . |
| 11 | Analysts Richard Sanderson and Chris Roberts expect profits this year , with the US Ogilvy group included for six months , to reach £75m against £40.3m . |
| 12 | Cardwell , of Mersea Road , Colchester , was discharged for six months and ordered to pay £53 towards prosecution costs . |
| 13 | Prime Minister Ante Markovic , introducing the currency reform in line with a controversial IMF-backed package of economic austerity measures announced by him on Dec. 18 , 1989 , had said also that wage increases would be linked to the new dinar 's exchange rate , meaning that wages were thus effectively frozen for six months at November 1989 levels . |
| 14 | Thus , although Franco 's own Minister of Industry and Commerce told him in early 1949 that , without more foreign aid , the Spanish economy could survive for six months at most , the Caudillo insisted that Spain had no need of the international community . |
| 15 | The 43-year-old , of Old Marston , Oxon , was yesterday banned from driving for six months and fined £350 by Witney magistrates . |
| 16 | He was also disqualified from driving for six months . |
| 17 | He was disqualified from driving for six months . |
| 18 | He was ordered to perform 160 hours community service and disqualified from driving for six months . |
| 19 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 20 | WORLD Formula One motorcycling champion Carl Fogarty was banned from driving for six months and fined £100 yesterday after admitting speeding at Dumfries Sheriff Court . |
| 21 | Thus although the authorities had their wish and Leese was effectively silenced for six months , during which time the IFL became a virtually moribund organization , the Rex v. |
| 22 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 23 | Institutions of the EEA would be an EEA Council ( one minister from each of the 19 countries and a representative of the EC Commission , chaired for six months alternately by an EC or an EFTA member ) , EEA courts to deal with disputes and to hear appeals on competition rulings , an EEA consultative committee , and an EEA joint parliamentary committee . |
| 24 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 25 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 26 | They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us . |
| 27 | He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion . |
| 28 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 29 | The line referred to a cold the character had had for six months and ‘ could n't shake ’ . |
| 30 | You 'll see that both the number of requests for service , and the number of visits made are well up on previous half years , and although some of that is due to probably the highest figure on insect complaints we 've ever had for six months , and erm it 's not all that , much of it is lately the department has been very , very busy indeed . |