Example sentences of "[adv prt] a few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 20 trainees may be brought together for about ten days spread over a few months , interspersed with more in-bureau case study exercises and observation . |
| 2 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 3 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 4 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 5 | There had also been rumours that Germany had paid a ransom to get two of their hostages out a few months earlier , and what with Germany breaking ranks , Irangate and now this suspected deal for the French hostages , British newspapers were of full moral outrage at the weakness of other countries and their capitulation in the fight against terrorism . |
| 6 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 7 | All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed . |
| 8 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 9 | Erm , it 's a city , this takes me back a few months , since the Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry , the character , special character of a city , is derives from a number of elements , there 's the green wedges which centre on the strays which penetrate into the heart of the built up area , there is the encircling belt of open countryside which links those areas together , there are the numerous settlements within the greenbelt and their relationship to one another , and to the city of York . |
| 10 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |