Example sentences of "[art] [adj] months ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 2 | Of the remaining three practices , one contributed for all but one of the 12 months ' data collection period , one supplied data for 10 out of 12 months , and one supplied data for eight months only . |
| 3 | He was not given the 30 months ' notice provided for by his contract . |
| 4 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
| 5 | The six months ' stock of parts was exhausted and it was believed that 10 to 15 per cent of the weapons and between 30 and 35 per cent of vehicles were unserviceable . |
| 6 | The trial judge , Millett J. , reached the conclusion that the six months ' notice served by the London Residuary Body was a good notice . |
| 7 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 8 | That is the annual payment , and although we 're seeking approval now for the whole payment , we will defer one of , half of those , both of those payments until the six months ' interval , in order to gain the interest . |
| 9 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 10 | The prospect of a rabid Irish nationalist invasion of Northern Ireland from the Republic in order to swamp the poll is unreal in more than one sense and it is very doubtful if the three months ' residence requirement is necessary . |
| 11 | What seems abundantly clear is that even if there were not the three months ' residence requirement in the case of Northern Ireland , it would still be necessary , in order to qualify to vote , for a person to have there a ‘ residence ’ in which he spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 12 | As it is , the three months ' requirement in Northern Ireland results in the disentitlement to vote of persons who would undoubtedly be able to vote in Great Britain , for example any person previously resident only in Great Britain who abandons his old residence and takes up a new one in Northern Ireland within three months of the qualifying date . |
| 13 | It is common ground that there was no ‘ good cause ’ within the meaning of section 34 ; the university was relying on the three months ' notice term contained in the letter of appointment coupled with the provision in section 34(3) that Mr. Page 's tenure was to be subject to the terms of the appointment . |
| 14 | Where the procession has been banned , the penalty for the inciter is slightly higher , a level four fine in addition to the three months ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 16 | Unscrupulous operators took the two months ' imprisonment in their stride . |
| 17 | Remarkably , their table I shows that the median symptom scores for episodes of hypoglycaemia during the two months ' treatment are higher with porcine than human insulin for seven of the nine items and identical only for the remaining two ; the scores at the onset of attacks show the greatest difference . |
| 18 | She had n't wanted to take the four months ' pay from Nicolo , but he 'd been coldly adamant . |
| 19 | Already , after a few months ' acquaintance , he complained to Harry of ‘ this hideous analysis which so masters me ’ and he tried to express Helen 's profound effect upon him : ‘ I always wonder when I look at her or think of her . |
| 20 | For example , in 1980 the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , introduced the ‘ short , sharp , shock ’ punishments for young offenders , involving a few months ' strict discipline and almost para-military training in detention centres . |
| 21 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |
| 22 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 23 | I do n't know how they will respond to my abuse in the chip pan after a few months ' use , but I think they will fare better than other brushes I 've used in the past . |
| 24 | Initially , in 1947 , Sir Stafford Cripps moved from the Board of Trade to a newly created Ministry of Economic Planning but , after a few months ' existence , this was absorbed into the Treasury when Cripps became Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 25 | So get your orders in well in advance for when the putter goes into production in a few months ' time … . |
| 26 | If you leave after only a few months ' experience here , believe me , you will find it hard to get a good job elsewhere . |
| 27 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 28 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
| 29 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |
| 30 | Try leaving his nappy off again in a few months ' time . |