Example sentences of "month and [adj] days " in BNC.
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1 | And so , on the nineteenth of December 1686 — after twenty-seven years , two months and nineteen days — I said goodbye to my island and sailed home to England . |
2 | I 've been going out with Will for nine months and five days ! |
3 | Nine months and five days , you could 've had a baby by now . |
4 | It ended in May 1943 when German Admiral Doenitz withdrew the U-Boat wolf packs which had caused major shipping losses for four years eight months and four days . |
5 | The last ship was sunk five years eight months and four days later . |
6 | While he was away was the longest fifteen months and eight days I ever spent . |
7 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
8 | The prison sentence imposed on " junk bond " financier Michael Milken was reduced on Aug. 5 from 10 years to 33 months and 26 days . |
9 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
10 | It 's interest-free , so I 'd expect to get it in eleven months and twenty-nine days from giving notice . ’ |
11 | In 1872 however the period was reduced to twelve months and seven days . |
12 | In that respect their Lordships were wrong ; by the time the Mantela docked Koraloona would have gained , at the ripe old age of twenty-four years , four months and seven days , their first assistant medical officer . |
13 | WHERE has thirty eight years , one month and nineteen days gone to ? has it all really happened ? |