Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a few months " in BNC.
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| 31 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 32 | I have owned a GameBoy for a few months now , and still use it . |
| 33 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 34 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
| 35 | Still , most of us were glad to be relieved of responsibility for our failing learners for a few months . |
| 36 | It was only fair that Neil Kinnock should be allowed to relinquish his post quickly , although the possibility of Roy Hattersley stepping in as deputy for a few months was ruled out too early . |
| 37 | If you are not aware that your eating habits change depending on the time of your menstrual cycle , it would be worth keeping diary for a few months to check . |
| 38 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 39 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
| 40 | Silicon Graphics Inc 's Laboratories are piloting a 50Mhz R4000 microprocessor , with two other system vendors following suit in a few months , according to Electronic News . |
| 41 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 42 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 43 | So Yardie sold 10,000 copies in a few months — an unheard of amount for a small press publication — and has now been picked up by Pan Books which will be putting out a mass-market edition in the new year . |
| 44 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 45 | The future of British Coal depends on the results of the next general election in a few months ' time , and I do not think that any hon. Member or the Minister would refute that . |
| 46 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 47 | They were tipped as a recovery stock after investors had lost much of their money in a few months . |
| 48 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 49 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 50 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 51 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 52 | THE 13-year-old airliner — the newest in El Al 's jumbo fleet — carried hundreds of passengers until a few months ago . |
| 53 | Parvis Yousefi could be ordered to leave his home in Southfield Crescent , Norton , Stockton , when he becomes eligible for parole in a few months ' time . |
| 54 | Just a room for occasional use over a few months , cash in advance of course , sorry no baby-sitting . |
| 55 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 56 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
| 57 | ‘ Timothy , four , has been learning cello for a few months and loves it . ’ |
| 58 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |