Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] months " in BNC.
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31 | After a few months in fresh water , they begin to eat again and grow . |
32 | After a few months in jail for manslaughter , Tepilit could be released : the war effort encouraged flexibility . |
33 | Fortunately , after a few months , this officer was replaced by a more avuncular figure and the threat receded . |
34 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
35 | After a few months , despite our best efforts , he went bankrupt and his knavish contractors were awarded all he had . |
36 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
37 | She left after a few months and had a home tutor . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | After a few months off , your main worry may be that you wo n't be able to cope with a full-time job , which will probably put you off returning to what you were doing before the baby . |
40 | But after a few months , I felt completely bored with the whole idea . |
41 | In 1852 he moved with his mother to Sheffield , where she died after a few months . |
42 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
43 | 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 . |
44 | After a few months she had decided that anything would be better than the ever-changing impersonality of that sort of life . |
45 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
46 | It forms a record of not only the resources allocated , but also those requested , and after a few months of operating the system the project leaders ' requests become realistic and they even strike agreements with each other on timing and amount of resources in advance of the meeting . |
47 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
48 | After a few months of wrestling unsuccessfully with the strong weeds , the house was delighted to see activity in the grounds . |
49 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
50 | The customer gives up after a few months waiting . |
51 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
52 | After a few months the child 's speech improved but later a specialist advised there was need of a further operation . |
53 | ‘ After a few months you will know whether it really is the right job for you , ’ he said . |
54 | ‘ After a few months you will know whether it really is the right job for you . ’ |
55 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
56 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
57 | In a matter of a few months the firm moved from being an outsider in the specialist insurance audit market ( having about 15% of the top insurance companies , measured in terms of premium income ) to being one of the two market leaders . |
58 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |
59 | 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 . |
60 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |