Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [num] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 2 | And the new boss of Burton , Laurence Cooklin , has been sacked after 15 months with a £773,00 pay-off , with more to come . |
| 3 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 4 | If enquiries in such cases have not been completed within 3 months ( for registered and insured letters ) or 6 months ( for ordinary letters ) then we will normally settle the claim ourselves . |
| 5 | The money , under the EC 's Rechar programme , has been frozen for 18 months while the political dispute raged on . |
| 6 | If no firm offer has been made within three months the farmer is free to go ahead with his original plans . |
| 7 | A barmaid who cudgelled her landlord boyfriend to death with a beer flagon has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment ( suspended ) . |
| 8 | A BESSBROOK man has been sentenced to six months in prison after he was overpayed a sum of £5,666.32 by the DHS . |
| 9 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |
| 10 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
| 11 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
| 12 | A YOUTH who frightened a teenager into handing over his watch has been sentenced to 12 months detention . |
| 13 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 14 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 15 | Well mine ai n't been used for three month . |
| 16 | The budget is due now , but it has been postponed for three months . |
| 17 | In all they 've questioned twelve present and former members of staff from the school , which has been closed for four months . |
| 18 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |
| 19 | If such an agreement had not been reached within 18 months , the government of Quebec would hold a referendum on the issue of independence . |
| 20 | The minimum length of notice an employer must give an employee under Section 49 of the Employment Protection Act 1978 is one week when the employee has been employed between one month and two years . |
| 21 | If for instance , an employee has been employed for six months or more , the governing body must give the LEA a written statement of the reasons for dismissal . |
| 22 | The Blinky Bill case ( International News , 6th November 1992 ) has been settled after six months of wrangling over the interpretation of Australia 's trademark and copyright legislation . |
| 23 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 24 | Sentence had been deferred for 12 months for good behaviour . |
| 25 | Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened . |
| 26 | AFTER A Fortnight in Hobart , where Eliza had been stationed for 11 months , Gould and his retinue packed everything , including Eliza 's enumerable drawings , and left for Sydney . |
| 27 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 28 | In one particular alone , the Scott Report disclosed that 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition had been delivered in fourteen months , which was totally inconsistent with the 15 per cent claim . |
| 29 | Phillip Thorpe , deputy chief executive of the Securities and Futures Authority , has been seconded for six months to assist Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board , in his review of the way the SIB carries out its regulatory responsibilities . |
| 30 | The striking out is automatic as compared with Ord 13 , r 3(4) where the court has to give notice of intention to strike out where no action has been taken for 12 months . |