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Example sentences for "eighteen months"

  • They cut the manes of their foals at a year or eighteen months old, in order to make it grow thick and long.

  • When about a year or eighteen months old, their tails ought to be cut, as the hair will then grow stronger and thicker.

  • She stood on her way, doomed to eighteen months' or two years' hard service upon that hated coast, while we were making our way to our home, to which every hour and every mile was bringing us nearer.

  • With a third child, who was still wholly speechless at eighteen months, I tried the experiment of spreading out a number of photographic portraits, and asking him “Which is mamma?

  • Of more than a hundred persons employed in various offices about the sick there died only those five in the course of eighteen months.

  • In the parish of Ardstraw, Tyrone, with a population of about twenty thousand, 504 coffins are stated by the parish minister to have been given to paupers in eighteen months.

  • At Strabane, there were four such, which sent ninety-six patients to the fever hospital in eighteen months.

  • The lighter-weight children sometimes walk as early as eleven months, but they should all be walking at eighteen months, and if not, it is usually indicative of backward mentality.

  • In the early months of childhood, from six years to eighteen months, the soups are usually strained, but after eighteen months, soups may be thickened with flour and rich milk making a cream soup of it.

  • From 36 cases Katzenellenbogen[74] estimates the average duration as eighteen months, the maximum as five years and five months, the minimum as one month.

  • At eighteen months of age, when the electric light is turned on in his nursery, the child will at once go to the curtains and make attempts to draw them.

  • I have seen many children of eighteen months or two years of age in whom the movements necessary for efficient mastication and swallowing had failed to develop satisfactorily.

  • At eighteen months of age observation and imitative capacity will have made more complex pursuits possible.

  • A child of eighteen months is not too young to be talked to in a quiet, straightforward, sensible way.

  • Apropos of the conjugal and domestic habits of the Circassians; I will describe an excursion I made along the military line of the North, eighteen months after my journey to the Caspian Sea.

  • These were successful for a while, but disasters soon followed, and the houses which were supposed to have realised profits to the amount of millions, failed a year or eighteen months afterwards.

  • But unhappily their committee was suppressed eighteen months ago, and this measure will be fatal to them.

  • Cheer up, old girl; eighteen months is a long while, but it ain't a lifetime.

  • He condemned her to eighteen months' hard labour, and gathering up the papers on the desk, dismissed her for ever from his mind.

  • Eighteen months; a devil of a stiff sentence for a first offence," said William.

  • Thus for the first time and in these terms Sand's journal presents the name of the man who, eighteen months later, he was to slay.

  • Thus far the first time and in these terms Sand's journal presents the name of the man who, eighteen months later, he was to slay.

  • His next station was the East Indies; from which, at the end of eighteen months, he was compelled to return by a very severe and dangerous illness.

  • Never had such a beneficial change been wrought in the short space of eighteen months.

  • If she comes to Paris in eighteen months or two years, she will take lessons in thorough bass and composition.

  • It is worthy of note that in this first letter to her, he spoke of being in very good health, for immediately afterwards, he was seized with acute bronchitis, and was ill much of the time during his prolonged stay of eighteen months.

  • During his prolonged stay of eighteen months, while his distraught mother was looking after affairs in his new home, his health became so bad that he could not finish the work outlined during the summer.

  • They are accordingly strewn on the broad oyster beds, to fatten for another year or eighteen months, when they are ready for the waiting gourmet.

  • Your oyster is fit to eat at eighteen months of age; but there is more of it when it is three years old.

  • At the end of a year or eighteen months, they have so far grown as to be trusted out on their own account.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appears also; artificial mound; dropped anchor; eighteen centuries; eighteen feet; eighteen guns; eighteen hours; eighteen hundred and fifty; eighteen inches; eighteen months; eighteen shillings; eighteen thousand; great pains; hardly less; leaves alternate; looks down; money economy; noble deeds; par des; partly owing; perpendicular direction; private cabinet; rough draft; this poor; whom belong might and; young friend