Example sentences of "spend the [adj] few months " in BNC.
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1 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
2 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
3 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
4 | So you 've spent the last few months diplomatically ‘ losing ’ at golf . |
5 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
6 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |
7 | Possibly because of this widespread feeling that relationships between health and social services were good , planning for April 1993 got left behind , and the city has spent the past few months frantically catching up . |
8 | will be spending the next few months at her home in Italy while she recovers from an attack of shingles . |
9 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
10 | What do you do — put your ideas to one side and spend the next few months feeling deflated ; or do you take out a Midland Personal Loan now and enjoy the benefits of your purchase , paying the money back in easy stages ? |