Sentence examples for upon months from inspiring English sources

His sentence was agreed upon months ago by lawyers from both sides.

Then the Legislature embarks upon months of hearings to dissect the plan, before hammering out a budget by the constitutional deadline of June 30.

They can spend months upon months of their time chasing and paying for the dozen or so certificates and approvals needed to live and work legally under the hukou system.

Despite a $1 billion investment since the early 1990s to install more than 200 elevators and escalators in the New York City subway, the equipment regularly fails, William Neuman reports in a front-page article that drew upon months of research, dozens of interviews and reviews of thousands of pages of documents.

For months upon months the carrier bore the ignominious distinction of being the only major wireless provider in the U.S. without access to Apple's tiny mobile juggernaut.

The 'taskforce', conveniently portrayed as a democratic means of giving different parties in the game a voice, seemed like a stitch-up, with the November/December solution decided upon months ago.

There were months-upon-months of backstage scandal and gossip regarding the Brad Pitt adaptation of the cult favorite novel.

With unemployment steady for month upon month at more than 9 percent, and with millions heavily in debt or simply skittish, many potential buyers are lost to the market.

He wields the names as if counting what can be counted upon after months of ghostly displacement by illness and institutions.

But unlike the sometimes raucous exchanges in the House of Commons, each of the 90-minute television debates will follow a highly controlled format, agreed upon after months of negotiations.

The agencies are continuing to downgrade Japanese financial institutions for reasons that have been widely commented upon for months, if not years.