The phrase "a four month probationary" is not entirely correct as it is missing a noun after "probationary." You can use it when referring to a trial period of four months, typically in a work or academic context.
Example: "The company has a policy of a four month probationary period for all new employees."
Alternatives: "a four-month trial" or "a four-month evaluation period."
While a man gets a three month "probationary period" on marriage and can always divorce his wife simply by saying "I divorce you" three times, a woman has to go through the court system.
Labour wants to ban price rises above a certain threshold and mandate that tenancies last for 3 years after a 6 month probationary period.
The hotel has dismissed two newly hired employees who were still in a three-month probationary period.
The Miliband plan, modelled on reforms introduced in the Republic of Ireland, will have three main elements: New three-year tenancy agreements that would start with a six-month probationary period allowing landlords to evict a tenant if they are in breach of their contract.
In 1997, a shotgun-wielding fur farmer received only an 18-month probationary sentence after shooting and wounding three young activists -- one of them critically -- for trespassing on his farm.
He claims he was unfairly dismissed days before a six-month probationary period ended, after he raised his concerns with Bhatia and then with the schools department.
Newly hired superintendents must serve a six-month probationary period during which the building can fire them, but after that, the union contract ensures that they are not fired arbitrarily.
But a spokesman for the State Division of Parole, Thomas Grant, said that Rabbi Lloyd had been a parole officer in 1990 and was not hired after an eight-month probationary period.
The fine the largest ever assessed under this particular environmental law comes with a three year probationary period.
To contrast: a recent tear gas attack on a gay rights march in Helsinki that left 88 people injured resulted in only four-month probationary sentences for the three assailants -- a disgrace in itself.
In addition to bullet wounds, activists also received four-month probationary sentences for breaking two locks at the farm.
