Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 2 | But over the past five or six years the visits had increased and lengthened until , in the preceding few months , they had settled permanently upon his presence . |
| 3 | Her next door neighbour , a Mrs. Ellen Greaves , gave evidence that she had constantly challenged Esther Dyson in sign language ( which she had learnt through daily contact with the deaf brother and sister ) over the preceding few months about her being in the family way . |
| 4 | Its dissatisfaction at several matters that had bruised West Indies cricket in the previous few months , on and off the field , was vented in the angry reception accorded Richie Richardson in the first match at Kingston 's Sabina Park . |
| 5 | The official was a friend of mine , and had done me some good turns over the previous few months ; most of which time I had spent in this same hotel . |
| 6 | Interethnic relations , Gorbachev conceded in his speech to the 28th Party Congress in July 1990 , had deteriorated since the congress before it , and especially over the previous few months . |
| 7 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 8 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
| 9 | OMON troops had been blamed for a series of attacks on over 20 Baltic border posts over the previous few months . |
| 10 | So , after the inevitable few months of bereavement , Amy went to work on herself , for herself . |
| 11 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 12 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 13 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 14 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
| 15 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 16 | Proteins from foods can also pass through the stomach during the first few months , and so lead to problems . |
| 17 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 18 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 19 | Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways ( p. 82 ) , and , of course , infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity . |
| 20 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 21 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 22 | The first few months of 1978 saw two major events concerning the future of Hall Automation . |
| 23 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 24 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 25 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 26 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 27 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 28 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
| 29 | The carrycots can double as a bed un the first few months , which is ideal if you 're staying away overnight , but make sure that the cot does n't get damp from rain during the day . |
| 30 | Baby carriers/slings leave your hands and arms free , and are a good way of transporting your baby in the first few months . |