Example sentences of "for [adj] months i " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 2 | After that for some months I was unemployed . |
| 3 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 4 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 5 | For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children . |
| 6 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 7 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 8 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
| 9 | Sometimes for many months I was the only white person for hundreds of miles . |
| 10 | For many months I watched carefully for the smoke from fires , but I did n't see anything . |
| 11 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 12 | For five months I slept with the baby , it was so cold . |
| 13 | Q. For 15 months I have successfully kept Monos , a Silver Scat , a Bumble Bee Goby , and even a Golden Sucking Loach in my brackish tank . |
| 14 | For two months I read no magazine or even newspaper review column . |
| 15 | For two months I lived the life of a quiet and responsible man . |
| 16 | For two months I was very ill and wished only to die . |
| 17 | because for eighteen months I mean there was this sledgehammer and all you could hear was boom , boom |
| 18 | For most months I have included titles that I think are worth ‘ having a go ’ with , although they may not figure in the first rank . |