Example sentences of "few months [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 2 | Bomber Command lost over 500 aircraft during the next few months over Berlin , and when you consider that this meant 3,500 fully trained men , it can be realised that it was a critical time . |
| 3 | You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 4 | It 's understood the jobs will disappear over the next few months as part of a slimming down exercise . |
| 5 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 6 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 7 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 8 | Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways ( p. 82 ) , and , of course , infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity . |
| 9 | The result of social and cognitive tests administered to the children between the ages of one and three obliged the authors to conclude that their data provided ‘ little or no support for the notion that how a mother interacts with her baby during the baby 's first few months of life has any particular consequences for later social or cognitive development ’ . |
| 10 | There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life . |
| 11 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 12 | For the young male mink , the first few months of life are his hardest test . |
| 13 | After its recognition in 1936 and its description as a clinical entity in 1938 , the prognosis has improved from a few months of life to a median age of survival of over 20 years . |
| 14 | A key development in the first few months of life is ‘ joint reference ’ : the ability of a young baby to follow mother 's eye-gaze in order that they can jointly experience the same event . |
| 15 | The possibility of a title going ‘ out of print ’ if selection decisions are delayed must also be considered — though this is unlikely if orders are placed within a few months of publication . |
| 16 | Within a few months of publication , however , Sony unveiled the first handheld , self-contained CD-ROM system , launching it first in Japan and then in Europe and the United States . |
| 17 | He half hoped she 'd bring back a burnt-offering , the way she had so often in their first few months of marriage , when she had deigned to cook for him . |
| 18 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 19 | erm and just being , being prepared to su suffer a few months of building |
| 20 | After a few months of wrestling unsuccessfully with the strong weeds , the house was delighted to see activity in the grounds . |
| 21 | But within the first few months of opening , the hotel was on target and , if anything , had underestimated its weekend business . |
| 22 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 23 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 24 | The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened . |
| 25 | Yet within a few months of Richard 's returning to school he had moved in with Philip , leaving his own family to do so . |
| 26 | After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear . |
| 27 | However , this pain commonly resolves spontaneously within the first few months of recovery . |
| 28 | ( After quite a few months of use , I still think these to be the best settings for ploughed land . ) |
| 29 | They met several times more up to 1985 , but seem to have remained in touch until the last few months of Ceauşescu 's rule . |
| 30 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |