Example sentences of "[noun] a few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 2 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 3 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 4 | But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later . |
| 5 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 6 | Your issue on the use of images a few months ago was excellent so why not stick to your own guidelines ? |
| 7 | I started organising puppy parties for my clients a few months back , using a good dog trainer to co-ordinate the parties and a local church hall as the venue . |
| 8 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
| 9 | I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published ! |
| 10 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 11 | In a letter to Gould a few months later , Lear , with characteristic self-pity , excuses his poor output : |
| 12 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 13 | Zach , Tom discovered , was a voluble , curly-haired boy a few months older than Willie , only taller and in bad need , so he thought , of a haircut . |
| 14 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 15 | Well it will , they have n't had a free election except for one they had in rather stressful circumstances a few months ago , since oh , the early er ninteen thirties , and one er wonders whether the population could be going to administer to Mr Kohl the same sort of surprise that the British population administered to Churchill in nineteen forty-five . |
| 16 | I had spotted this on my travels a few months previous to this time and had made a mental note to return and search it . |
| 17 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 18 | Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R . |
| 19 | There was another memorable moment a few months later when she was flown to Leeds by the same helicopter — ‘ I have to admit , it 's my favourite method of transport ’ — to attend a Press conference . |
| 20 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 21 | A new chancellor , unexpectedly shifted from the foreign secretary 's post a few months earlier , delivered a ‘ budget for savers ’ . |
| 22 | Mr Phillips can neither sell his house in Cardiff , Glamorgan , nor find a suitable new one in Swansea , where he took up his post a few months ago . |
| 23 | I was able to buy a second-hand machine with an electric motor at a charity shop a few months ago . |
| 24 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 25 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 27 | Sure , I I had fork out corporation tax a few months ago for the previous good year . |
| 28 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 29 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
| 30 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |