Example sentences of "months ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 2 | Answers to each part of the competition will be printed two months ' later . |
| 3 | Look , she said , he 's left , bolted , owing three months ' back rent . |
| 4 | Going back over previous months ' editions , I found the following : |
| 5 | The supply deal could be terminated at three months ' notice . |
| 6 | The winners will meet the Scottish champions , Murrayfield Racers in the final in two months ' time , writes Steve Pinder . |
| 7 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 8 | The penalty for early redemption is three months ' interest . |
| 9 | - Your summer clothes go into hibernation in cupboards , wardrobes , dry cleaners ' , cloakrooms , hat-stands , boots of cars , other people 's houses , restaurant vestibules , backs of chairs in disused rooms and many other places from which they will eventually creep , crumpled and dishevelled , in six months ' time . |
| 10 | After two months ' silence , I was informed that ministers stood by their decision . |
| 11 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 12 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | The unspoken concern of West Germany and France is that if sterling joined the ERM at its present exchange rate , a devaluation might still be required in several months ' time . |
| 14 | In 1969 , he took six months ' sabbatical leave to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris . |
| 15 | The statement said the arrests were made by the force 's organised crime task force , headed by Det Chief Supt Graham Melvin , after several months ' inquiries . |
| 16 | Here Yakovlev met him surrounded by packed shelves and metals acquired with two months ' credit from the Tartar Republic . |
| 17 | With an average of nine months ' notice , the timber trade — buying on its own responsibility — could procure , at a lower average price per standard than is being paid at present , enough timber for all the houses that the building industry can build . |
| 18 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 19 | He was sentenced to 18 months ' youth custody and was banned from driving for six years . |
| 20 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |
| 21 | After several months ' work , during which time they lived in a caravan parked on the site , the owners , Mr and Mrs Bates were able to move into the future garage area of the building in August 1984 and to continue work on the upper-floor accommodation under the shelter of the reslated roof . |
| 22 | ‘ By the time my sheep are lambing , ’ Small says , ‘ the foxes are probably glad of a change of diet : it 's 11 months ' pork from the pig unit next door , then one month 's lamb . ’ |
| 23 | THE new issue of the Film Yearbook ( Virgin , £6.99 ) includes comments from several film-makers on the quality of the past 12 months ' cinema . |
| 24 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
| 25 | Among the next few months ' highlights are Borderline 's production of Dario Fo 's Mistero Buffo at the King 's Theatre with that man Robbie Coltrane again ( Feb ) ; The Art of Print , a survey of European Print Masters at the Hunterian Art Gallery ( Jan-Apr ) ; a new production of Pirandello 's Enrico Four at the Citizens Theatre ( Feb ) ; Steven Campbell 's first one-man show in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre ( Mar ) and Freaks by the Companie Genevieve de Kermabon at Tramway ( Mar ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Six months ' notice , both ways , and any loans repaid within that period . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Finstat — unlike an index — adds back 12 months ' income , assuming it to be reinvested in the trust . |
| 28 | The winner will be announced in two months ' time . |
| 29 | The spring , he says , is a particularly perilous time in adder-land : as they emerge from hibernation , adders are too groggy to slip away from potential threats but their fangs are filled with several months ' worth of venom . |
| 30 | 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 . |