Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 2 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 3 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 4 | This procedure will achieve temporary relief only since collateral veins are likely to develop across the anastomosis within a few months , and will ultimately bleed . |
| 5 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 6 | I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again . |
| 7 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
| 8 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |
| 9 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 10 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 11 | In 1939 history intervened and in the space of a few months the work of a lifetime was in ruins . |
| 12 | Now his awareness of the new pictorial possibilities which Picasso had instinctively hit upon in the Demoiselles and his study of the work of Cézanne ( whose influence , indeed , can already be sensed in the Baigneuse ) were to make him , within the space of a few months , a major force in twentieth-century painting . |
| 13 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
| 14 | It was the second suicide connected with the university in the space of a few months . |
| 15 | Where else would one be teaching black Robotic dancers , a dancer from the Stuttgart Ballet , seven pretty Chinese girls , a female weightlifter , a University oarswoman , ex-dancers , ex-aerobicists , with the rest of us , in the space of a few months . |
| 16 | Mr Loughran said last night : ‘ My girlfriend put the application in a few months ago . |
| 17 | They 'd both jacked in their jobs ( he 's a computer programmer ; she 's a physiotherapist ) and were planning to backpack round the world for a few months . |
| 18 | The only time we may ask you to make out a new schedule is , if at the end of a twelve months period , the amount owing on your Home Management Account is higher than one monthly transfer . |
| 19 | Antrim , who face defending champions Down at Casement Park , bring in Tony McCrudden for Andy Healy , while Enda McAtamney returns to the squad after a three months suspension . |
| 20 | ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease . |