Example sentences of "eighteen months ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This would give him eighteen months ' salary as compensation for loss of office , and his pension was not to begin until the eighteen month period had elapsed . |
| 3 | But what I 'm wearing now I 'll be wearing in a year or eighteen months , it does n't chop and change like a fashion ; the meaning it has now is the same one it will have in eighteen months ' time . |
| 4 | I had a young fellow come up to me one day — he had eighteen months ' service . |
| 5 | The North Side had , at the time of research , one community planner of eighteen months ' standing . |
| 6 | Given the time it takes to write and then publish a book , our apparently insatiable appetite for the stuff causes real problems : the satirical observation conceived now is likely to look at best , a little tired , and , at worst , incomprehensible , in twelve to eighteen months ' time . |
| 7 | After eighteen months ' successful operation at the Washington works , Glover set up his own chemical works at Carville , Wallsend , in 1861 , with W. F. Clark and J. W. Mawson as partners . |