Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] months [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 2 | I am enclosing a photograph ( opposite ) of the aircraft , that I took when I was serving with the Communication Flight based at RAF Lydda , Palestine , ( now Ben Gurion Airport , Israel ) during the latter months of 1942 . |
| 3 | On Jan. 25 , 1990 , Bhutto gave birth to a daughter ( thereby becoming the first head of government to give birth while in office ) ; the withdrawal of the Prime Minister from public life during the latter months of her pregnancy increased the aura of indecisiveness surrounding the government , particularly as the Cabinet had offered its resignation in mid-November ( see p. 37043 ) . |
| 4 | During the latter months of 1990 Israel appeared to become increasingly isolated , with the USA using every opportunity to gain support among its Arab partners in the anti-Iraqi coalition . |
| 5 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 6 | So the company decided , after a few months of running in service , to adopt a 1 in 100 coning which was reputed to give almost as good riding qualities at high speed , and did not suffer from the disadvantage of excessive flange wear . |
| 7 | After a few months of this kind of thing , it was a wonder we did n't automatically walk out of our homes every hour , on the hour , when we were on leave , to look at the weather . |
| 8 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 9 | After a few months of getting the house in order , Elaine became as restless as the stereotyped male executive and persuaded Louise to move out into the country . |
| 10 | After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear . |
| 11 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 12 | It forms a record of not only the resources allocated , but also those requested , and after a few months of operating the system the project leaders ' requests become realistic and they even strike agreements with each other on timing and amount of resources in advance of the meeting . |
| 13 | After a few months of wrestling unsuccessfully with the strong weeds , the house was delighted to see activity in the grounds . |
| 14 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 15 | After a few months as a general news reporter I was given a wider range of assignments and when Jim Miller left , my regular beats included the monthly School Board meetings and the daily Police Court and High Court sessions . |
| 16 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 17 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
| 18 | After a few months in fresh water , they begin to eat again and grow . |
| 19 | After a few months in jail for manslaughter , Tepilit could be released : the war effort encouraged flexibility . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 25 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 26 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |
| 27 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 28 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 29 | Of the three , the split between Sampras , 20 and Brandi , from whom he parted for a few months at the end of 1990 , was the greatest surprise . |
| 30 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |