Example sentences of "[pron] a [adj] months " in BNC.
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1 | Give " em a few months , and you should see the share price double . |
2 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
3 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
4 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
5 | It was a great pleasure meeting you a few months ago and I should like to feel our paths might cross again some time . |
6 | A friend of mine came to you a few months back . |
7 | It took me a few months to realise that my life was changed completely . |
8 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
9 | ‘ Were n't you saying something a few months ago that too quiet a life was bad for a writer 's creativity ? |
10 | When I was er I started at the North Mid , but I was only there a few months |
11 | Mr Recorder Shaun Spencer gave him a nine months suspended prison sentence . |
12 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
13 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
14 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
15 | She told him her husband had left her a few months before for another woman . |
16 | That John should have kissed her like that — in the way she had quite often seen boys kiss girls on their way home- and that she should not have minded , apart from the slight awkwardness of the people surging around them , would have seemed incredible to her a few months ago . |
17 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
18 | Give it a few months , goes the cheery Tory argument . |
19 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |
20 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
21 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
22 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
23 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
24 | ( Richard shaved his a few months before ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ came out . ) |
25 | They told us a few months ago . |
26 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |