A month of job search before coming on the rolls may teach skills that pay off later.

These three months had taught the citizens something.

These celibate months had taught him something that very few men ever guessed, or imagined, however dimly.

The six months or so that you spent with the Machine has taught you more than anything else could in the same length of time.

Three months in Beirut had taught him everything he would ever need to know about that.

But if the last three months have taught me anything, it's that you're not a bad captain.

The last few months had taught him quite clearly that a good knowledge of writing, reading and arithmetic was no longer enough.

However, he abruptly ended his education after only 18 months over a dissatisfaction with the scholarly philosophy taught at the college.

The last 14 months have taught everyone to ask this question of Bryant: What's in it for him to apologize?

A few months of marriage had taught her that Drew's temper was a lit rise before coffee.