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 | Is he further aware that he carries the good wishes of the party behind him in the difficult few months to come and should go to the talks in great confidence , knowing of the great contribution that this country has made to Europe since the days of William Pitt ? |
| 12 | The screening takes place in the coming few months in the next stage of a three-year programme . |
| 13 | However , some women feel more keen , especially during the middle few months . |
| 14 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 15 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 16 | We have reviewed our corporate design over the past few months and as from November we will be presenting a new design for this newsletter series . |
| 17 | The result was an emphatic seven-try victory over a courageous side who , over the past few months in their own colours and in their other incarnation as the Canadian national team , have overwhelmed Japan and the United States and been pipped by Wales and Ireland ( minus their Lions ) after surrendering leads late on . |
| 18 | ‘ Over the past few months , state security organs and border guards exposed and suppressed several attempts by special agencies of Afghan armed opposition forces to recruit Soviet citizens , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ Over the past few months , state security organs and border guards exposed and suppressed several attempts by special agencies of Afghan armed opposition forces to recruit Soviet citizens , ’ he said . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ It is no secret that the atmosphere in the past few months has not been easy . |
| 21 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 22 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 23 | In the past few months he has sided with those in the party and the army who have long wanted a crackdown . |
| 24 | And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz. |
| 25 | But , over the past few months , I have been investigating something that makes such abstractions far more impressive . |
| 26 | Philip Dorgan of Goldman Sachs said : ‘ Their performance represents quite a big turnaround in the past few months . |
| 27 | Over the past few months , the ground has has been prepared with meetings between senior Labour and Whitehall figures . |
| 28 | Over the past few months , for instance , our Government has single-handedly ensured that the new directive on efficiency standards for boilers ended up far weaker than initially proposed by the commission . |
| 29 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |
| 30 | Over the past few months , governments have been considering action to cut back on emissions of greenhouse gases . |