Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [det] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months . |
| 2 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
| 3 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
| 4 | The whole process is slow — perhaps a few months — but can be very quick in real emergencies . |
| 5 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 6 | The headache was the Leyland Class 155 , withdrawn after only a few months with doors that jammed open . |
| 7 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 8 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 9 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
| 10 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 11 | Only a few months ago , he was in prison for ‘ subversion ’ and ‘ anti-state activities ’ ; but yesterday , before the day was out , he was being congratulated as a worthy successor to the country 's first leader , Tomas Garrigue Masaryk . |
| 12 | Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches . |
| 13 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 14 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 15 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 16 | He could hear the loud yet muffled interchanges between his father , John Carter , and his stepmother of only a few months , Rhoda . |
| 17 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
| 18 | Ian remembered it , but I did n't , being only a few months old at the time . |
| 19 | The Mackenzies had invited the Keiths and their children , two-year-old Billy , and Roberta Keith , born only a few months before and named after Robert in Sydney , to join them for the festive season . |
| 20 | After only a few months there I located an even better one on the ground floor of a house at the corner of Jervis and Georgia Streets , not far from the CBC studios . |
| 21 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
| 22 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 23 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 24 | It is an inborn fear that develops when they are only a few months old , regardless of whether they have ever met an owl . |
| 25 | The Russian Federation is a new state , which has existed for only a few months . |
| 26 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 27 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 28 | Only a few months earlier the USDOE had decided that the prospect of nuclear fusion by the ‘ conventional ’ route was still too many years away to meet the Pentagon 's urgent needs for tritium . |
| 29 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 30 | I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market . |