Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] months [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
2 | When arrested , Allitt weighed 13 stone , but in the following months she became anorexic , refusing to eat , and her weight plunged to around seven stone . |
3 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
4 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
5 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
6 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
7 | OSF/1 was ACE 's primary Unix focus when the initiative was launched amidst much fanfare last year , but over the following months it became clear that DEC was the only major ACE member committed to using the operating system . |
8 | But over the next months they became convinced the couple had been killed by someone they knew . |