Sentence examples for months were devoted to from inspiring English sources

The remainder of the year, usually the summer and fall months, were devoted to test flying the gliders at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The game took two and a half years to complete after its initial planning; one year and three months were devoted to programming.

For When the Earth Trembled, an unheard-of four months were devoted to creating the special effects and collapsing sets that would re-create the disaster, a historic event which occurred only five years earlier.

Three more months were devoted to working on the proofs of the book before Joyce halted work shortly before his self-imposed deadline, his 40th birthday (2 February 1922).

There's a little fondness, always, in this book, despite its most absurd lines sounding like invented jabs at mainstream cinema's expense ("six months were devoted to teaching Chee-Chee the Chimpanzee how to cook bacon and eggs"; "'you take out the semen, you don't have a script,' Bottomly said"; "'you got a little problem about the Lobster Man, you come see Irwin,'" et cetera, et cetera).

It must be remembered that relatively few resources (< $30,000) and only limited time (approximately 18 months) were devoted to this project.

It takes a year to produce — most of that time, nine to 10 months, is devoted to testing the drug for purity and safety.

Monday's opening of the trial, which is expected to last at least four months, was devoted to impaneling a jury.

For U.N.-supported projects like those in the Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihood program, the first six months are devoted to educating the local community about the plant and electricity, and creating community organizations to help manage operations.

After the application was created, the first three months of development were devoted to conducting field usability tests which revealed major/minor problems with software coding, uploading images, logging in, and navigation.

The long winter months were devoted mainly to skiing, which Nansen began to practice at the age of two, on improvised skis.