Example sentences of "[noun] of a few months " 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 | Kimon , therefore , was dumped by ( among others ) his own troops of a few months before — he was , after all , the man who had got them into the Ithome mess . |
3 | The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford . |
4 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |
5 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
6 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
7 | In 1939 history intervened and in the space of a few months the work of a lifetime was in ruins . |
8 | Now his awareness of the new pictorial possibilities which Picasso had instinctively hit upon in the Demoiselles and his study of the work of Cézanne ( whose influence , indeed , can already be sensed in the Baigneuse ) were to make him , within the space of a few months , a major force in twentieth-century painting . |
9 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
10 | It was the second suicide connected with the university in the space of a few months . |
11 | Where else would one be teaching black Robotic dancers , a dancer from the Stuttgart Ballet , seven pretty Chinese girls , a female weightlifter , a University oarswoman , ex-dancers , ex-aerobicists , with the rest of us , in the space of a few months . |
12 | In a matter of a few months the firm moved from being an outsider in the specialist insurance audit market ( having about 15% of the top insurance companies , measured in terms of premium income ) to being one of the two market leaders . |
13 | In other words , the delay in initial diagnosis of a few months may not matter that much to the urological management of most such patients in Britain . |