Example sentences of "a few months [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A few months ago , even the gruffest company bosses could be heard enthusing over jazzy Department of Employment leaflets . |
| 32 | The directive , which follows a similar directive on non-life insurance published in draft a few months ago , is the last big element in its push to open financial markets that are still highly protected . |
| 33 | Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches . |
| 34 | A few months ago they were a rag-bag of local pressure groups . |
| 35 | Brazil expects to export over 1m tonnes , twice its estimate a few months ago . |
| 36 | We had talked already over the telephone about her radical decision a few months ago to begin wearing the traditional Muslim dress , and how relieved she had felt since changing what she wore , feeling that she was ‘ expressing something she had felt all along ’ . |
| 37 | A few months ago , I went to school like any other girl . |
| 38 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 39 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 40 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 41 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 42 | Retaining the characteristics of the original composite steel/concrete Thor Beam , launched a few months ago , a new version for use with metal deck flooring has now been introduced by ConstrucThor . |
| 43 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 44 | ‘ One night a few months ago — early spring it was … ’ |
| 45 | One of them , Bill , was promoted to a supervisory position a few months ago . |
| 46 | A few months ago , the couple moved out of town to a more rural environment . |
| 47 | In 1978 the Japanese-American physicist J. J. Sakurai ( who died tragically while on a visit to CERN a few months ago ) and his student P. Q. Hung answered this question in a remarkably simple way . |
| 48 | A few months ago the plant recruited its first workers — the men and women , mainly aged under 25 , whose minds and fingers are agile enough to turn out microscopic silicon chips by the hundreds of thousands . |
| 49 | Then , I looked again at a superficially rather strange SF trilogy that appeared a few months ago ( Schrodinger 's Cat , by Robert Anton Wilson , sphere , 1982 ) . |
| 50 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 51 | He rejoined Schering a few months ago , after a break of more than 29 years . |
| 52 | A FEW MONTHS AGO I GAVE MY IMPRESSIONS of the sort of thing a typical record critic tends to look for in putting together a review . |
| 53 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 54 | A few months ago we looked at the Fender Hot Rod Strat , featuring a DiMarzio humbucker at the bridge : an off-the-peg version of one of the most common custom options requested of guitar repairmen today . |
| 55 | Dear Doctor I own a Tokai TST-50 Strat copy and up until a few months ago I could n't fault its sound or setup . |
| 56 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
| 57 | A few months ago Cozy put a solo album out , and a band together which I 'm also part of , with a few gigs coming up in Germany now , and then more round Europe in January . |
| 58 | A few months ago , I was invited to collaborate in a New Age book project , with several people I would have loved to work with . |
| 59 | A few months ago one of the fruitier New Zealand Sunday tabloid comments from Don Clarke , the sensational All Black fullback of the 1950s and 1960s who has now settled in South Africa . |
| 60 | Just a few months ago , only the most rabid anti-royalist thought that the monarchy would not go on and on . |