Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 31 | I wanted specifically to address myself to one rumour which seems to be a circulating dilemma , a great deal of enthusiasm and I heard that at er Chichester Railway Station today erm the staff at Chichester Railway Station seem to be under the impression that the erm the emergency planning authorities er have imminent proposals to breach the railway line south of to allow the flood water to escape to the sea , with the result so I was quite earnestly and er without any doubt that the railway will be closed for six months erm the , the Chairman of the County Council just raised this issue with the Emergency Planning , I understand that this is er an unsubstantiated rumour and er that there be a an immediate er destruction of the railways is not imminent but er I think perhaps it shows that erm probably due to the the great media interest and all sorts of stories are er doing a round but it goes without saying of course that the railway was n't closed for six months to the railway , but I do n't think there is any er any prospect to that , but I think the Chairman Council feels that . |
| 32 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 33 | The maiden voyage may have to be postponed for five months as a result of a fault in one of Challenger 's fuel tanks . |
| 34 | Up to 300 workers at the Fife yard will be employed for 14 months , giving the Type 42 destroyer a major refit and upgrading its weapons capabilities . |
| 35 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |
| 36 | The decision wo n't be announced for 6 months . |
| 37 | Coun. Ray Flowers , chairman of the county highways sub-committee , also welcomed the pedestrianisation scheme , which is to be monitored for 18 months . |
| 38 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 39 | Judge Bruce Laughland ordered last week that the boy should be detained for three months . |
| 40 | The public inquiry is expected to last a week , but a final decision wo n't be taken for several months . |
| 41 | If the water flows into the shaft of an adjoining mine , with the result that the mine can not be worked for six months , the mine owner may recover damages , but the miners who lose their wages during that period probably have no remedy , not because the loss is ‘ unnatural ’ or ‘ unforeseeable ’ but because it is a loss of a type for which the law restricts recovery . |
| 42 | Deserted wives were regarded with even more suspicion than widows , and in their case the circular advised that outdoor relief should be denied for twelve months , to ensure that they were not colluding with their husbands to defraud the authorities . |
| 43 | But when magistrates told her she 'd be jailed for three months , she collapsed in the dock . |
| 44 | THE QUEST to find a new role for the Scottish Constitutional Convention will be extended for another month , in spite of considerable doubts expressed about its future yesterday by the leadership of the Scottish Liberal Democrats . |
| 45 | Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months . |
| 46 | But it is also true that warrants to the security services may be renewed for six months at a time . |
| 47 | Thereafter , warrants were issued for only two months , though they could be renewed for one month at a time in the case of those issued to the police , and six months at a time in the case of those issued to the security services . |
| 48 | A Co-op spokesman says : ‘ We have found an alternative firm but it has meant that instead of mortgage repayments being met for a year , they will now only be paid for six months — and the price has had to rise as well . ’ |
| 49 | There would also be a short term pension payable er and this would be paid for three months at the rate of your pension or pay at the time of death . |
| 50 | The 30-year-old forward could now be banned for three months under the ‘ doubling-up ’ system for getting sent off twice in two years . |
| 51 | By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months . |
| 52 | Ballot papers and counterfoils are stored for 12 months after every election in a secure government storeroom before being destroyed . |
| 53 | Second meetings , as required by law , have been fixed for next month . |
| 54 | AFTER A Fortnight in Hobart , where Eliza had been stationed for 11 months , Gould and his retinue packed everything , including Eliza 's enumerable drawings , and left for Sydney . |
| 55 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 56 | Phillip Thorpe , deputy chief executive of the Securities and Futures Authority , has been seconded for six months to assist Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board , in his review of the way the SIB carries out its regulatory responsibilities . |
| 57 | The striking out is automatic as compared with Ord 13 , r 3(4) where the court has to give notice of intention to strike out where no action has been taken for 12 months . |
| 58 | They are issued for three months ( 91 days ) at a weekly tender ( an auction where bids are submitted in writing ) . |
| 59 | During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , in 1914 still within living memory , Paris had been besieged for four months and forced to surrender . |
| 60 | Ten patients were treated for six months ; six patients withdrew because of adverse effects . |