Example sentences of "[noun] a few months [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 2 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 3 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 4 | But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later . |
| 5 | Your issue on the use of images a few months ago was excellent so why not stick to your own guidelines ? |
| 6 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
| 7 | I started organising puppy parties for my clients a few months back , using a good dog trainer to co-ordinate the parties and a local church hall as the venue . |
| 8 | In a letter to Gould a few months later , Lear , with characteristic self-pity , excuses his poor output : |
| 9 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 10 | Well it will , they have n't had a free election except for one they had in rather stressful circumstances a few months ago , since oh , the early er ninteen thirties , and one er wonders whether the population could be going to administer to Mr Kohl the same sort of surprise that the British population administered to Churchill in nineteen forty-five . |
| 11 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 12 | Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R . |
| 13 | There was another memorable moment a few months later when she was flown to Leeds by the same helicopter — ‘ I have to admit , it 's my favourite method of transport ’ — to attend a Press conference . |
| 14 | Mr Phillips can neither sell his house in Cardiff , Glamorgan , nor find a suitable new one in Swansea , where he took up his post a few months ago . |
| 15 | A new chancellor , unexpectedly shifted from the foreign secretary 's post a few months earlier , delivered a ‘ budget for savers ’ . |
| 16 | I was able to buy a second-hand machine with an electric motor at a charity shop a few months ago . |
| 17 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 19 | Sure , I I had fork out corporation tax a few months ago for the previous good year . |
| 20 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 21 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
| 22 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 23 | ‘ I had a slight accident a few months ago , wrote off my car and almost myself . ’ |
| 24 | He had a very bad car accident a few months ago and shattered his kneecap . |
| 25 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 26 | He took over as chairman a few months later . |
| 27 | Our route , although a time-saver , took us near Iraq — over the area that became the battlefield for Desert Storm a few months later . |
| 28 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 29 | So his decision a few months later to join the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service as its first chief executive was probably enough to stupefy many of his peers . |
| 30 | We had talked already over the telephone about her radical decision a few months ago to begin wearing the traditional Muslim dress , and how relieved she had felt since changing what she wore , feeling that she was ‘ expressing something she had felt all along ’ . |