Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] a few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 2 | Like no way I 've been out of work for a few months |
| 3 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 4 | THE 13-year-old airliner — the newest in El Al 's jumbo fleet — carried hundreds of passengers until a few months ago . |
| 5 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 6 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 7 | The world record for economic inflation was probably Germany after the First World War , where the price of a loaf of bread went from under a mark to millions of marks in a few months . |
| 8 | ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association . |