Example sentences of "[art] [det] months [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 2 | In this way the youngsters make it clear that they are not yet mature enough to be considered rivals for territories or breeding partners and are allowed to feed on the reef beside their parents for the several months that it takes them to grow to maturity . |
| 3 | The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised . |
| 4 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 7 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 8 | A few months after I joined the Department of Transport in 1979 I was presented with an issue which had baffled governments for well over a hundred years . |
| 9 | There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape . |
| 10 | But Mukhamedov , thank you very much , a few months after another rapturous reception on the 1989 tour , walked into the Royal Ballet and told them he 'd quit the Bolshoi and wanted a job . |
| 11 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |
| 12 | He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place . |
| 13 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 14 | Frohnmayer had been nominated by Bush in the summer of 1989 , a few months after the NEA controversy began with the popular outcry against its indirect support for ‘ Piss Christ ’ , Andrea Serrano 's photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a container of urine . |
| 15 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 16 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |
| 17 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 18 | She saw Ross Aldridge , whom she knew slightly from when he 'd processed her shotgun licence application , and wondered for a moment if the rumour was true about how he and his wife had moved to the area a few months after their baby had died . |
| 19 | Odette went up to 16 stone during her third pregnancy but , a few months after baby Kari was born , she joined a local branch of Slimmer 's World and she has n't looked back since . |
| 20 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 21 | A few months after he return from England he bought a flight ticket to Montevideo in Uruguay . |
| 22 | A few months after my return Goreng found a use for the less obviously subtle or versatile of his captives , which while turning them to material advantage also catered for a certain desired degree of planned redundancy . |
| 23 | These remarks were made by a Unit General Manager reflecting on his experience a few months after WFP was published . |
| 24 | The recession and a consequent loss of business is forcing the closure of Fosters menswear shop in Baxtergate , Whitby , only a few months after plans were passed for extensive modernisation work to be carried out . |
| 25 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 26 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 27 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 28 | Your holiday abroad should follow within a few months while your memory is fresh . |
| 29 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 30 | Given that it is only a few months since the Secretary of State appointed him under a two-year contract , will the Leader of the House arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement to the House next week on the matter ? |