Example sentences of "for [adj] months " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Doctors need to retrain for eight months . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dr Robert Jones , the Essex general practitioner suspended for eight months for serious professional misconduct , is to appeal against his conviction . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Palazzo Peschiere in Genoa where CD and his family lived for eight months during 1844–5 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Five men worked five days a week for eight months until the interior was back in good order . |
| 18 | Their children had been in care for eight months . |
| 19 | Bosnian Serbs , who have occupied the city for eight months , admitted freezing weather and famine had made life intolerable for its 380,000 residents . |
| 20 | ‘ I am away for eight months a year and we hardly see each other . |
| 21 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 22 | The reviewer has only been in office for eight months but so far has not had cause to uphold a single application for a review . |
| 23 | The tank has been up and running for eight months : pH is 7.8 , with 15°GH and 12°KH . |
| 24 | Australia had a visible-trade deficit of $102m in March , its first for eight months . |
| 25 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 26 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 27 | He 's been giving me them for eight months now . |
| 28 | In another undated letter to Gaunt Minton admits that owing to the pressure of illustrative work he had not painted for eight months . |
| 29 | Following repeated breaches of the orders the judge , in the contemnor 's presence , found him guilty of contempt of court and committed him to prison for eight months . |
| 30 | 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 . |