Example sentences of "be a [adj] [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 2 | June had been a lush warm month , drawing her seeds from the ground with charmed fingers , stretching the runner beans a full four feet from their first green sprouts , and winding them neatly up their bamboo canes . |
| 3 | Must ‘ ave been a good nine months back , not that long after you left for the front , come to think of it . ’ |
| 4 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 5 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 6 | It will be a good few months — possibly more like a year — before Windows NT , the operating system with a Window face , comes along . |
| 7 | It 'll be a good three months before she shows , and , with skilful dressing , she could go on a lot longer . ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , by far the most surprising thing about the whole workwear-as-fashion issue is that , despite now being a fair few months down the workwear/style line , there are still the doubters , the sceptics , the fashion-aware bods who hiss ‘ hype ’ at the mere mention of moleskin . |
| 9 | I think we owe it to people like or at least to give them another crack at the whip to see if they 've come on in that interim period cos it 's a good six months since we interviewed |
| 10 | Even if Mr Major really means it and he does n't intend to do a Nigel Lawson , a sort of nineteen eighty seven trick , er surely he can almost hardly help himself , because the pound and shares are doing very well at the moment ; we 're told by the economists that there 's a good six months of honeymoon period , er and people feel a great pent up demand , people have a great pent up demand , which is now being released . |
| 11 | There 's a good few months ’ work , if i 'm any judge . ’ |
| 12 | Recently , a high-ranking defector from North Korea informed western intelligence that his country is a mere 12 months away from producing a functional nuclear weapon . |
| 13 | For example , in his attempt to lead a new life , he attributes any success he may have had in conquering lust , anger or pride to God 's grace , a very specifically Christian idea ; and this is a full fifteen months before his conversion to Christianity . |
| 14 | It was a good six months before they had to meet again , this time in the Texaco Trophy matches in England . |
| 15 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |