Example sentences of "few months [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 2 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
| 3 | Another conference was held a few months later at Geneva , when France 's colonial war in Indochina was brought to an end . |
| 4 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 5 | Richard Crossman , manager of the Border brewery , Berwick , joined Mann 's as a partner , being joined a few months later by a friend from Berwick , Thomas Paulin . |
| 6 | His anxiety for equal terms in the nuclear club was echoed a few months later by , of all people , Aneurin Bevan , who urged his fellow left-wingers at the Labour Party conference not to vote for Britain to give up nuclear arms with the famous plea : ‘ Do not send the British Foreign Minister naked into the international conference chamber ! ’ |
| 7 | Fortunately , Quetta was bought a few months later by a retired man , Harold Shoosmith . |
| 8 | Sapura Holdings Sdn Bhd , Kuala Lumpur will launch Malaysia 's first locally designed and manufactured cellular portable telephone in August : the unit will launch two models — one for the 900MHz network followed a few months later by another for the proposed 800MHz network and the new phone could double Sapura 's current 10% share of Malaysia 's mobile phone market . |
| 9 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 10 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 11 | A very similar idea to Linde 's was put forth independently a few months later by Paul Steinhardt and Andreas Albrecht of the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 12 | This idea was developed further a few months later in the ‘ Marshall Plan ’ , a highly significant US commitment to European affairs . |
| 13 | It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic . |
| 14 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 15 | I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market . |
| 16 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 17 | Sure , I I had fork out corporation tax a few months ago for the previous good year . |
| 18 | VALE Royal Environment Network , formed a few months ago from conservation groups in the area , meets this evening in Northwich Memorial Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | The first time I met them , a few months ago in a London photo studio , they were having confetti dumped over their heads by a girl who plays Gemma in Neighbours . |
| 21 | The world of dance has lost to AIDS not only its two biggest stars of the modern era , Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn , but also many less well-known talents ; they include a French choreographer , Dominique Bagouet , who died a few months ago in his early 30s . |
| 22 | Le Monde de l'Art , established a few months ago in Hippolyte Boulanger 's former ceramics factory , which for many years housed the poster museum , the Musée de l'Affiche , is a place devoted to art and spectacle . |
| 23 | The secure software company lost out on the US Navy 's Super Mini AFKAC 300 contract a few months ago after Planning Research Corp , the integrator and lead contractor , ‘ disinvited ’ it from its bid after teaming with Hewlett-Packard for the hardware , Sandone said . |
| 24 | The secure software company lost out on the US Navy 's Super Mini AFKAC 300 contract a few months ago after PRC , the integrator and lead contractor , ‘ disinvited ’ it from its bid after teaming with HP for the hardware , Sandone said . |
| 25 | Ten single decker buses currently in service in the county are just a few months away from their 20th birthdays and there are still three 1973-registered double deckers trundling around Durham . |
| 26 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 27 | A few months on in their friendship Nigel began to be sick of the hints of affection dropped by Eleanor . |
| 28 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 29 | IBOA Honorary Secretary since 1987 , Brendan was Finance Officer for a few months previously in that year . |
| 30 | He 'd first appeared a few months earlier for just a few minutes . |