Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [num] months " in BNC.

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1 But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues .
2 Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office .
3 Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office .
4 The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package .
5 The company has been given 12 months to fit equipment to control discharges of the highly toxic chemical pentachlorophenol ( PCP ) .
6 And Altovar Limited has been given three months to pay the eight thousand pound fine .
7 I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company .
8 If applications have not been received five months into bodies ’ financial years it is assumed by the Council that they do not need , and therefore do not intend to apply for , grant aid .
9 He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God .
10 He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner .
11 Agreed , the appointment had been made two months ago .
12 As a matter of authenticity , and given that the appointment had been made two months ago and that perhaps Mr Gajdusek might need a little reminder , she took the letter from its envelope while , his touch again tingling , again gentle , he smoothed some cream over her bruises .
13 Retrospective radiological review showed that this lesion had been present when an initial diagnosis of coeliac disease had been made 12 months previously and a detailed description of the natural history of the lymphoma during this period was thus available .
14 Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest .
15 Well obviously if if you the normal rule of thumb , as I 'm led to believe , is that if you buy a used a vehicle from a used car dealer , you 're given three months , three thousand miles , in which you can you can take complaints back .
16 All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report .
17 Still , it 's not for much longer , then we 're taking two months off to sail the Atlantic . ’
18 Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before .
19 However , the rest of the complex , claimed to be the biggest in Europe and including a hotel , conference centre and extensive facilites for other sports , has , through contractual difficulties , still not been opened six months after the planned date .
20 I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances
21 no , but some sort of place , well when , when you look at these pictures now , the satellites been going twelve months , still going through
22 Ensure that limitation and ASO reminders are produced three months before the deadline .
23 The elections had been called 15 months early after a group of five Green legislators — who had kept the minority government of Michael Field in office since June 1989 [ see p. 37877 ] — withdrew its support after disagreements over the issue of logging [ for May 1989 elections see p. 36658 ] .
24 The Japanese hi-fi 's clapped out , the VW should have been replaced 18 months ago , and that new Miele dishwasher does n't quite fit alongside the Swedish fridge .
25 The circumlocution obscured the compelling fact that the earlier Bill had been abandoned two months after the outbreak of war with Germany .
26 On 30 July , the last day before the Summer Recess , battered but relieved Ministers , their policy of retention rejected by the elected House but upheld by the hereditary peers , saw the Act finally onto the statute book in largely the same form as it had been introduced nine months earlier .
27 ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice .
28 If the individual kept on offending , he would simply be given six months ' custodial sentence for each offence — not to run concurrently , but consecutively .
29 It is expected that the members of the team of consultants will be announced in May and that they will be given six months to complete the report , which will be published towards the end of the year .
30 Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified .
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