Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] months " in BNC.
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1 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
2 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
3 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
4 | The post of chief operating officer that the Foundation created a few months ago has been abolished . |
5 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
6 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
7 | Richard 's turn came a few months later . |
8 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
9 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |
10 | It happened a few months later . |
11 | Erm you were telling me when we had the preliminary interview about erm what happened a few months prior to the disturbances that occurred in the late Summer . |
12 | Of the present-day staff , only terminal manager was at Woodacon in February 1967 , although — the most senior of Woodacon 's drivers — joined a few months later . |
13 | In that case the judge passed a six months ' suspended prison sentence , allowing the defendant to walk free from the court . |
14 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | You got a few months and then you were paid off you were back on the dole . |
17 | Sapura Holdings Sdn Bhd , Kuala Lumpur will launch Malaysia 's first locally designed and manufactured cellular portable telephone in August : the unit will launch two models — one for the 900MHz network followed a few months later by another for the proposed 800MHz network and the new phone could double Sapura 's current 10% share of Malaysia 's mobile phone market . |
18 | The successors to the landlords served a six months ' written notice to quit under section 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 although they did not require the premises for their undertaking . |
19 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
20 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
21 | Phil Mitchell , ex-FYT field officer for the North West , and his wife Lyn , decided a few months ago to open up their home to young people . |
22 | Le Monde de l'Art , established a few months ago in Hippolyte Boulanger 's former ceramics factory , which for many years housed the poster museum , the Musée de l'Affiche , is a place devoted to art and spectacle . |
23 | When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche . |
24 | The world of dance has lost to AIDS not only its two biggest stars of the modern era , Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn , but also many less well-known talents ; they include a French choreographer , Dominique Bagouet , who died a few months ago in his early 30s . |
25 | In fact Carter 's style as president was probably closest to that of Woodrow Wilson who , as it happens , died a few months before Carter was born in 1924 . |
26 | She had behaved like this when his grandmother died a few months before . |
27 | His father died a few months after his birth and his grandmother then ruled as regent . |
28 | He died a few months later , and was buried 27 June 1662 . |
29 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
30 | My wife died a few months ago . ’ |