Example sentences of "a few [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she also changed in a few short months ? |
| 2 | In a few short months he had changed , his hair was greyer , his face more drawn and the gold Albert hung loosely around his once corpulent stomach . |
| 3 | I 'm just here for a few short months . |
| 4 | And for a few fleeting months during our 1992 winter of discontent , he acted as guru to the IRFU on the way ahead for the sport . |
| 5 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
| 6 | A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body . |
| 7 | ‘ But if Mellor had not disputed our bill we could have survived a few more months in the hope that we would sell several houses on our books . ’ |
| 8 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 9 | But in a few more months , Joyce wrote his apologia and made it clear that despite their apparent freedom of choice , there was in reality only one decision that he could have taken : |
| 10 | This work will not be done in a vacuum , but for a problem that has existed for at least a lifetime a few more months of thought might lead to better outcomes , and ones that will be more readily accepted . |
| 11 | After a few more months on other farms , he would be ready to start farming himself . |
| 12 | She sat dully in the cab while the driver talked non-stop about foreign tourists who would dominate his trade for a few more months to come . |
| 13 | Today , we debate a legislative programme that could have been proposed only by a Government who have no purpose other than hanging on to office for a few more months . |
| 14 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 15 | I went back to my doctor after two months and said well I feel a bit better , can I a few more months . |
| 16 | I want to live — just a few more months , just to have time to catch up on old times . ’ |
| 17 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |