Example sentences of "for [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 2 | Colt had known the driver for eleven months , and he knew he was good because the Colonel had told him how the driver had once handled an ambush . |
| 3 | A woman living with three little girls , the youngest still only a baby , on Coventry 's hard-to-heat Woodend estate had no electric light for eleven months . |
| 4 | I am in New Zealand for eleven months — I travel everywhere and visit all the freezing works . |
| 5 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 6 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 7 | Life is beginning to look good for Eleven months old Adisa Blagajac . |
| 8 | Life is beginning to look good for Eleven months old Adisa Blagajac . |
| 9 | This one sheet of graph paper for our dieter will therefore have twelve points marked on it along the bottom axis ( one for each month ) and around thirty points marked on the other axis ( each point representing 1 lb or 0.45 kg ) . |
| 10 | You should also work into it check lists for each month with every detail you can think of , and have an arrangement for assessing the event after it has happened . |
| 11 | ‘ My idea is , we use the same girl — Tracey , that is — for each month , but with different backgrounds according to the season . ’ |
| 12 | The pack contains twelve action booklets , one for each month , together with a time management pamphlet explaining how to make better use of your time and how to utilise the monthly work books . |
| 13 | in the year before the employee 's 65th birthday , various provisions scale down the payment on a monthly basis , ie the amount is reduced by one twelfth for each month by which his or her age approaches 65 ; |
| 14 | There are several ways in which the five responses might be summarized into a single score for each month which could then be traced over time . |
| 15 | Choose a product ( eg sportswear ) and say what theme you would use for each month of the year , eg January winter holidays/ski equipment June Wimbledon / tennis outfits |
| 16 | The book tells the story of one year in the garden , with a chapter for each month . |
| 17 | For example , a pressed flower design can make a lovely picture for a calendar , or you could create an appropriate design for each month of the year , composed of seasonal flowers . |
| 18 | Suppose you want to record the achievements of your sales team for each month of the past year . |
| 19 | In hotels where bookings are made several months in advance , charts for each month are prepared . |
| 20 | Start a Gardener 's Diary , with a page for each month . |
| 21 | In 1931 came What Shall We Have Today , ( 5s. and in paper covers 35. ) , the most popular of all the Boulestin books , containing a large selection of recipes plus a sample luncheon and dinner menu for each month of the year . |
| 22 | At least one taxing officer takes the view that as a rule of thumb he would be prepared to allow one hour 's perusals for each month of the litigation . |
| 23 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 24 | Doctors need to retrain for eight months . |
| 25 | Pat Cash , out for eight months with an Achilles tendon injury , could make his comeback in the doubles at the Australian Open in Melbourne next month . |
| 26 | Dr Robert Jones , the Essex general practitioner suspended for eight months for serious professional misconduct , is to appeal against his conviction . |
| 27 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 28 | The Palazzo Peschiere in Genoa where CD and his family lived for eight months during 1844–5 . |
| 29 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |
| 30 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |