Example sentences of "[conj] [art] few month " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 2 | " Social types rise up and die within the space of a few years , or a few months " , declared Nizan . |
| 3 | Do you ever watch the weather forecast and it says especially last or a few months ago say it 'll be minus three tonight ? |
| 4 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 5 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
| 6 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 7 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 8 | Harrison explained that a few months earlier eight European environmentalists had stirred up international press coverage by chaining themselves to a logging barge at Miri . |
| 9 | It was the view of the assessment panel that a few months of reasonably stable attendance could be of great help to Jim when he left school and they decided that a flexible arrangement might encourage attendance where previous efforts had failed . |
| 10 | In practice , many though not all informals have no security of tenure over the site on which they work , have very few means of tying their small workforce to the enterprise for more than a few months , and may run out of their supply of recycled materials ( from the formal sector ) at any moment . |
| 11 | ‘ But where the sentence is substantial the offence will be grave , the risk the offender represents to the public can be significant and the difference which decision to grant or not to grant parole makes , may be more than a few months . |
| 12 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 13 | Although there were delays in the criminal courts , they seldom lasted more than a few months . |
| 14 | Moreover , the nature of sickness benefit from the state and from many employers means that people who are off work ill for less than a few months may not be worse off financially , anyway . |
| 15 | Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case . |
| 16 | Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months . |
| 17 | It is rare for a tribe to spend more than a few months in any one place ; consequently , any rug that is unfinished when the tribe moves has to be fastened tightly to the loom and transported in its entirety to the next encampment . |
| 18 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 19 | Some authorities now favour homes taking fifteen to twenty children , particularly for the difficult medium-term cases where the child is away from their natural home for more than a few months . |
| 20 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 21 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 22 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 23 | He said quite , quote , in my experience people who have access to , or are offered this level of care , even if it 's even if it is started , it is rarely continued for more than a few months . |
| 24 | And she died not more than a few months ago . |
| 25 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 26 | Bivins listened to their music in his dressing room and a few months later signed them up . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the rug market can be extremely volatile , and a few months either way can make a significant difference to prices . |
| 28 | In August 1317 seven bishops were represented on the king 's mission to Lancaster , and a few months later ten bishops from the southern province attended a council meeting to resolve the political dispute ; one outcome of this was that in January 1318 the bishop of Norwich negotiated with Lancaster . |
| 29 | That was when Ruth got to know her better , and to like her better ; and a few months later , Cousin Saul had married Gloria , taking her to live at the ramshackle old warehouse on Cyclops Wharf . |
| 30 | Both brothers perished at the battle of Marica in 1371 , and a few months later , with the death of Stephen Uroš , the last Serbian tsar , the Nemanjić dynasty came to an end . |