Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] for [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | A JUDGE apologised yesterday to a shoplifter who was locked up and forgotten for nine months . |
| 2 | Jorge Quintana Silva and another student , Carlos Ortega , were arrested on 4 January 1990 and detained for 10 months before being brought to trial . |
| 3 | For that they were detained and tortured for four months in 1981 . |
| 4 | In the wild , birds wipe the stocky seed flesh from their beaks to deposit the fertilised seed into a space where , if left for three months , it might flourish . |
| 5 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 6 | Jim — who by this time was not quite so slim — was fined £415 and banned for six months . |
| 7 | Thompson , of Crawley , was fined £400 and banned for six months for the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention . |
| 8 | Thompson , 42 , of Crawley , West Sussex , was convicted of the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention , fined £400 and banned for six months . |
| 9 | Stephen Scott , 30 , of Kearsley Drive , Rhyl , was fined £80 and banned for 16 months after admitting driving with excess alcohol . |
| 10 | Clarke was convicted of drink driving ten years ago and banned for 18 months . |
| 11 | Mr Michael Knowles , aged 47 , Conservative MP for Nottingham East , was at South Western magistrates court in London yesterday fined £200 and banned for 12 months after he admitted a drink driving offence . |
| 12 | She was fined £500 on each charge and banned for 12 months by the town 's magistrates . |
| 13 | At the Easter vestry in 1818 Merceron was voted out , and shortly afterwards he was convicted of the charges against him and imprisoned for eighteen months . |
| 14 | The original timber Warehouse was entirely destroyed by fire which started on 12th January and burned for three months . |
| 15 | She herself was detained in June 1986 and held for nineteen months . |
| 16 | Yet Morgan ( 1972 ) wrote that British East Coast N. lapillus refused to attack L. littorea even when starved for 4 months . |