Example sentences of "only a [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it is only a six months trial so I am told , so come on residents of Albert Hill catch that bus and keep the service going . |
| 2 | The headache was the Leyland Class 155 , withdrawn after only a few months with doors that jammed open . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 5 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
| 6 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 12 | He could hear the loud yet muffled interchanges between his father , John Carter , and his stepmother of only a few months , Rhoda . |
| 13 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
| 14 | Ian remembered it , but I did n't , being only a few months old at the time . |
| 15 | The Mackenzies had invited the Keiths and their children , two-year-old Billy , and Roberta Keith , born only a few months before and named after Robert in Sydney , to join them for the festive season . |
| 16 | After only a few months there I located an even better one on the ground floor of a house at the corner of Jervis and Georgia Streets , not far from the CBC studios . |
| 17 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
| 18 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 19 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 20 | It is an inborn fear that develops when they are only a few months old , regardless of whether they have ever met an owl . |
| 21 | The Russian Federation is a new state , which has existed for only a few months . |
| 22 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 23 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 24 | Only a few months earlier the USDOE had decided that the prospect of nuclear fusion by the ‘ conventional ’ route was still too many years away to meet the Pentagon 's urgent needs for tritium . |
| 25 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 26 | I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market . |
| 27 | The board hastily named as acting director Clay Johnson III , a mail-order executive hired only a few months earlier as chief operating officer . |
| 28 | And Elfed , her new husband , married only a few months and heir to a clan of claimants . |
| 29 | Almost immediately , it seemed , Burton got his first film break — still only a few months out of the RAF . |
| 30 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |