Example sentences of "a few months and " in BNC.
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1 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
2 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
3 | When I am tired and think , ‘ I do n't want to do this any more ’ I just tell myself that it might not be here in a few months and that there 's probably a million who would kill to be where I am . |
4 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
5 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
6 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
7 | They would stay for a few months and go back . |
8 | And Elfed , her new husband , married only a few months and heir to a clan of claimants . |
9 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
10 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
11 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
12 | Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case . |
13 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
14 | ‘ Just wait a few months and we will go as tourists . ’ |
15 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
16 | She left after a few months and had a home tutor . |
17 | I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again . |
18 | ‘ Timothy , four , has been learning cello for a few months and loves it . ’ |
19 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
20 | I thought I would get a job there but I could n't for a few months and er , my wife and two children joined me there and my brother 's wife joined us there , and two of us bought the house in Luton . |
21 | In this case , leave it for a few months and try going again later . |
22 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
23 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
24 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
25 | This alleyway was shut for a few months and we Hello . |
26 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
27 | It 's been there er , for sale for a few months and sold it by February at a |
28 | You got a few months and then you were paid off you were back on the dole . |