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"Three months in jail" or "Three months pregnant" or "He used three months wisely", there is no apostrophe. Thus, months in "three months of hard work" will have no apostrophe, as "of hard work" is an adjunct/adjectival phrase. But "three months' hard work" will have an apostrophe, as "hard work" is a noun phrase.
When used with periods of time, bi means "two" or "every two". Bimonthly means "once in two months"....When used with periods of time, semi means "half of" or "occurring twice within a period of time." Semimonthly means "twice a month". I thought there was a note that said, "avoid this word because it is confusing," but that is not the case.
Assuming you want to avoid the uncommonly used "semester" for six months, we do have a fairly common adjective: biannual. Creative reorganization can work it into any sentence. The used car lot always has a biannual sale. I like to get a good deep-tissue massage biannually. There is also a less-used synonym for biannual: semiannual.
“in the last 3 months” - I guess this term should be used with past simple. The time period is already gone. E.g. now is february and if I say "in the last 3 months", I mean "in november, december and january". The term “in the past 3 months" shows the period which is not finished yet. So there should be used the present perfect.
@RoelSchroeven When the months originally got their names in the Roman calendar, the year began with March, and there were only ten named months. What we now call January and February were just an un-named block of days not assigned to any month, and the months following Junius (June) were Quintilis and Sextilis (for the numbers five and six).
There is a difference between a duration period of three months as in "trimester" and an event occurring every 3 months as in "quarterly". In the same vein you would have a quadrimester or tri-annually(which means three times a year; not every 3 months) both being correct in the right context.
7. There are 7 calendar months with 31 days:January, March, May, July, August, October, and DecemberOne version of the mnemonic rhyme to recall this is:Thirty days hath September,April, June, and ...
It is of course possible to find special terms, but they are not in frequent use. What is usually done is to specify a fraction of a year or a number of days, weeks, or months. One might say "a third of a year" or "four months." Fractions using sixths or twelfths are rare. Most would say "seven months" rather than "seven twelfths of a year."
For example, "My past year in Provence was fun" implies you lived there until very recently. But "My last year in Provence was fun" carries no such implication, and might actually refer to the last of perhaps several years when you lived there, perhaps having moved elsewhere decades ago. – FumbleFingers.
Because it has more than one word, a hyphen is necessary to keep all the parts of that adjective together. Because it's an adjective, it remains month and not months: preceding adjectives are not inflected for number. This serves for other similar collocations: a six-foot coffin; a ten-year-old boy; a fifty-six-page book