Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
| 2 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 3 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 4 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
| 5 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 6 | We listened to the hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) — we often must do so — and he defended the council tax with all the conviction with which he defended the poll tax just a few months ago . |
| 7 | The joys — and the financial rewards — of the instant game had not reached the West Indies when Denness led his troops there a few months later and , as the two sides were drawn in separate groups in the 1975 World Cup , it was 1976 before they met again . |
| 8 | He was in the public eye again a few months later when the Rolls struck a bull near the Spotted Dog in High Coniscliffe . |
| 9 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
| 10 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 11 | Thus only cause seems appropriate in the uses given below : ( 142 ) … moved the governor 's race forward a few months , causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual . |
| 12 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 13 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 14 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 15 | The sojourn at Swanage seems indeed to have held magic times for the couple only a few months wed , in those days before the later estrangement . |
| 16 | And here is the militant Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani recalling an Arab family 's departure from that same country just a few months later : |
| 17 | There had also been rumours that Germany had paid a ransom to get two of their hostages out a few months earlier , and what with Germany breaking ranks , Irangate and now this suspected deal for the French hostages , British newspapers were of full moral outrage at the weakness of other countries and their capitulation in the fight against terrorism . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | A reformed chocoholic and one who turned her back on butter only a few months ago , I was interested to see if my attempts to live more healthily had borne fruit . |
| 20 | Then , too , the Garfields of KILSBY and ASHBY ST LEDGERS were the forefathers of another president , James Garfield , whose tenure , however , was one of the briefest in American history ; his term was cut short by an assassin 's bullet just a few months after his inauguration . |
| 21 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |