Example sentences of "few month [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | A bright future for London 's securities firms would , oddly , be nearer if in the next few months they once again lost oodles of cash . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
6 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
7 | ‘ Every few months they 're rounded up and driven from the city , ’ explained Ellen . |
8 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
9 | Whereas up until a few months they were thinking of closing the engineering department |
10 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
11 | For the last few months everything has rather fallen apart . |
12 | A few months what ? |
13 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
14 | Sir , — In the past few months we have heard much regarding possible reforms in the working of parliament . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
17 | Over the next few months we talked and prayed about it and in the Spring we submitted applications for staffing on the King 's Lodge Base at Nuneaton , starting in April 1993 . |
18 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |
19 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
20 | If these operations are to be distributed evenly across our region , for the next few months we should concentrate on patients from other health districts ( assuming equal clinical priority ) . |
21 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
22 | So over the next few months we 'll be looking at the underlying organization of Windows from a practical point of view ; showing you exactly how to install , run and remove applications ( and other things , like printer drivers ) from Windows . |
23 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
24 | Textiles workers , Greater London Staff Association , Apex , tailor and garment workers , they were all wooed by other unions but they all had the good sense to merge into the G M B. In the next few months we 'll be joined by members of E F T A T. I am delighted that the Special E F T A T Conference voted in favour of the G M B. I welcome that decision and I pay tribute to the many colleagues who worked so hard to achieve that victory . |
25 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
26 | Over the next few months we planned when to go , who to take , who to contact and why . |
27 | Over the past few months we have welcomed several new staff : |
28 | ‘ In the next few months we will see what the public think we should spend our money on , as we look at the results of a survey . ’ |
29 | Over the past few months we 've seen a far higher proportion of our own borrowers being first time buyers , okay at very low levels , but er a much higher proportion being first time buyers . |
30 | Now we 're going to say a temporary goodbye , because over the next few months we need to consolidate all that we have learned . |