Example sentences of "just a [det] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 2 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 3 | This example might seem unrealistically pessimistic , as a new band may feel confident of being able to record and release their album in just a few months , with money from sales and royalties quickly starting to now in . |
| 4 | For instance , Saint Gobain , a recently privatised glassmaker , outbid Britain 's BTR to buy Norton , an American maker of abrasives , for FFr11 billion ( $2 billion ) just a few months before America 's recession began . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The adventurous side of Kylie 's spirit eventually triumphed though and just a few months after her exams another audition was being set up . |
| 7 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 8 | And here is the militant Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani recalling an Arab family 's departure from that same country just a few months later : |
| 9 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
| 10 | Average age for the ceasing of menstruation is around 50 , but the hot flushes and sweating that can accompany it are more common after the periods have ended , and may last from just a few months to more than five years . |
| 11 | Then , too , the Garfields of KILSBY and ASHBY ST LEDGERS were the forefathers of another president , James Garfield , whose tenure , however , was one of the briefest in American history ; his term was cut short by an assassin 's bullet just a few months after his inauguration . |
| 12 | Just a few months ago , only the most rabid anti-royalist thought that the monarchy would not go on and on . |
| 13 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |
| 14 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 15 | Despite the high profile launch , just a few months later the audience of Eldorado was only 2.4 million people , ‘ fewer than Gardeners World , ’ as the Daily Express pointed out . |
| 16 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |
| 17 | Called the Autoglide , the opener has had its price cut by £100 to £346 ( including VAT ) just a few months after its launch , making is even better value for money . |
| 18 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 19 | The French in South India were eliminated as a political power in the 1760 and 1761 campaigns ; the Moghul emperors were in no position to do anything about the rise of British power because , just a few months before the battle of Plassey , an Afghan army had marched south-east and plundered Delhi again . |
| 20 | Baghoomian organised Basquiat 's last show in New York , and after Basquiat died of a drug overdose in the spring of 1988 , just a few months after that show closed , Baghoomian claimed a fifty percent share of all the works in Basquiat 's estate , numbering in the hundreds . |
| 21 | So it was something of a dream come true when , just a few months later , they moved into this whitewashed house in the centre of the village . |
| 22 | That self-confidence had been acquired from the success of The Cocktail Party : it had opened in London in May 1950 , just a few months after the New York opening , and , although the audiences began to fall off in November , Sherek did not feel it necessary to close the play until February 1951 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is just a few months before the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
| 26 | According to the event , the duration of this state may last from just a few months to many years . |
| 27 | A little later — just a few months — we were rich . |
| 28 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 29 | I could have looked after her and been with her so much longer then , not just a few months , not just at the end ! ’ |
| 30 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |