Example sentences of "a few months [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
| 2 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |
| 3 | A few months previously she would have gone on to implore Camille not to let her friends eat everything in the fridge . |
| 4 | Suddenly recalling an incident that had happened a few months previously , she gave a small , twisted smile . |
| 5 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 6 | IBOA Honorary Secretary since 1987 , Brendan was Finance Officer for a few months previously in that year . |
| 7 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 8 | A few months previously his name had been included in a list of men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty if the awful day ever dawned when Napoleon landed on the south coast . |
| 9 | Mr Turner , a retired electronics computer engineer , and Mr Hubbard were among 85 training on HMS Defiant at Devonport but finished training a few months apart and lost touch in 1953 . |
| 10 | The applicant was employed by a company from 1959 to 1987 until she was dismissed by reason of redundancy when she was a few months over 60 . |
| 11 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 12 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 13 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 14 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 15 | Yeah if Now but th if I 've understood you correctly , there 's going to be a few months when we do n't actually supply anything . |
| 16 | After a few months however , Mr Wilson had been recalled to London as the head of his company had been tragically killed in an automobile accident . |
| 17 | In retaliation for confiscation of its sugar mills and oil refineries ( 6 August ) , its banks ( 17 September ) and the majority of its larger companies ( 13 October ) , the United States announced an embargo on Cuba on 19 October , covering all goods except non-subsidised foodstuffs and medical supplies ( within a few months even these items were included ) . |
| 18 | A few months on in their friendship Nigel began to be sick of the hints of affection dropped by Eleanor . |
| 19 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |
| 20 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 21 | A few months ago we mentioned that a computerised welfare benefits package was available from a medical school research and development team in London . |
| 22 | A few months ago , Snodin also produced Tony Marchant 's acute and bruising Take Me Home , the best drama serial of the year , in which another Yuppie ( he does n't like them , does he ? ) , this time in a new town , lost his wife and lifestyle to a mini-cab driver . |
| 23 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
| 24 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 25 | ‘ A few months ago she was in her full health and it was you we were worried about , ’ Michael cried . |
| 26 | Phil Mitchell , ex-FYT field officer for the North West , and his wife Lyn , decided a few months ago to open up their home to young people . |
| 27 | A few months ago even , this would have seemed improbable . |
| 28 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 29 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 30 | Only a few months ago , he was in prison for ‘ subversion ’ and ‘ anti-state activities ’ ; but yesterday , before the day was out , he was being congratulated as a worthy successor to the country 's first leader , Tomas Garrigue Masaryk . |