Example sentences of "month before " in BNC.
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| 1 | But needed some kind of help : she 'd spoken about it for months before and was utterly thrilled when Jay drawled an interest . |
| 2 | Sadly he died shortly afterwards and for many reasons it was some months before I used the disc . |
| 3 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 4 | At this rate , it will be about six months before all the Kurds know their fate . |
| 5 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 6 | Also , because of the type of accounting system adopted by all record companies , it is quite feasible for royalties generated from record sales in the UK to take nine months before they are paid to the artist . |
| 7 | In W. J. Perry 's The Origin of Magic and Religion which he reviewed in July 1924 , four months before these lines appeared , Eliot read of ‘ old stone images ’ of the Melanesians , of mana , of the handing down of rituals , and of W. H. R. Rivers 's work on ‘ an extensive literature in which attempts are made to bring the symbolism of myth and ritual into relation with modern views concerning its rôle in the dream and disease ’ . |
| 8 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 9 | It is four months before Stig is well enough to walk properly , and by then winter is over and the race has passed , with Odd-Knut making the top ten but no higher because of the loss . |
| 10 | Leland fought the case through the courts before giving up in September 1931 , just six months before he died . |
| 11 | Some of his staff disapproved of the direction he was taking , and four months before Mountbatten died , his private secretary , Sir David Checketts , resigned . |
| 12 | When Adeane left , Charles had definite ideas about the sort of man he wanted to replace him , but it was six months before the right man could be found . |
| 13 | Charles had been given a view of the plans some months before and had been appalled . |
| 14 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 15 | Less than six months before the contract is enforced , the Department of Health has still not issued specifications for software producers . |
| 16 | If we could list those we 'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur . |
| 17 | ITN had said that in the 12 months before the ban was imposed , 0.01 per cent of air time would have been affected and these items could have been recast into a form which complied with the directives . |
| 18 | However , the BR safety study is likely to be conducted outside the scope of the Government 's financial targets for the railways which will be unveiled next week , at least two months before the safety report is published . |
| 19 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 20 | All these points were approved for printing some months before they became official policy . |
| 21 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 22 | One each in one of the decade 's continuing stories , the rivalry between Lyle and Faldo , but it was only a matter of months before Lyle made it 2-1 . |
| 23 | For instance , Saint Gobain , a recently privatised glassmaker , outbid Britain 's BTR to buy Norton , an American maker of abrasives , for FFr11 billion ( $2 billion ) just a few months before America 's recession began . |
| 24 | The following extracts from one letter portray the Helen recalled by Eleanor Farjeon in 1958 : ‘ Of her he said : ‘ During the nine months before her baby is born , her face is one perpetual smile . |
| 25 | And I feel if now we deny ourselves our greatest delight and say our love alone shall make us strong , our strength shall not depend on anything but our love then indeed I think we shall be creating an independence of each other , which can only make our binding sympathy more perfect … . for the present , for the 14 months before I am 21 then I have after much real thought , much consideration decided that it would be best for both of us to be separated … |
| 26 | Keats was written rapidly at Selsfield House in 1913 some months before he began his work there on the Childhood and the Fiction . |
| 27 | Six months before he sat his Final Schools examination , he recorded the change he had observed in ‘ My Writing — it seems daily to become poorer though my mind is slowly growing . |
| 28 | It was a good six months before they had to meet again , this time in the Texaco Trophy matches in England . |
| 29 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |
| 30 | One elderly juror , whose house had burned down eight months before North appeared , said she tuned in a little to the hearings as she tried to sort everything out , but ‘ it was just like I was focussing on ‘ The Three Stooges ’ or something . ’ |