Example sentences of "a [adj] months [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm retiring in a few months Daphne said quietly . |
| 2 | For a few months Joanne stayed at home , but became desperate to get a job and regain her independence . |
| 3 | In a few months Rose 's home place and Moran 's house were almost interwoven . |
| 4 | Within a few months Peter , too , was offered a job , initially to help Bernard market home furnishing fabrics on a wholesale basis . |
| 5 | For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration . |
| 6 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 7 | Within a few months George Dundas was himself commander of the Lutine , and on 2nd November transferred in this rank to the sloop Calpe , again newly commissioned , and with this record of command his career was firmly established and his subsequent rise rapid , for in this case Keith had made no mistake in patronising a friend . |
| 8 | Devastated , within a few months Kirchner committed suicide at his Davos home where he had lived since World War I. The museum has been designed by the young team of Zurich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer who won the brief in 1989 . |
| 9 | In a few months Michael Portillo is likely to announce initial plans to distinguish ‘ essential costs ’ and ‘ avoidable spending ’ in four departments — Health , Education , the Home Office , and Social Security — which account for £110 billion of public spending . |
| 10 | For two and a half months Saragossa , a poorly fortified town , resisted a good siege train , and when the walls were gone the inhabitants fought in the streets . |