Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few months [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 2 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 3 | After a few months she had decided that anything would be better than the ever-changing impersonality of that sort of life . |
| 4 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 5 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
| 6 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 7 | After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them . |
| 8 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 9 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
| 10 | ‘ After a few months you will know whether it really is the right job for you , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ After a few months you will know whether it really is the right job for you . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it seemed like every few months there 'd be another little trip up . |
| 14 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 15 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 16 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 17 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
| 18 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 19 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 20 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 21 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 22 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
| 23 | Within a few months his position came under threat from a new direction . |
| 24 | Within a few months there were several dozen mediums offering their services . |
| 25 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 26 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 27 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 28 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 29 | Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember . |
| 30 | Within days of helping me you would be transferred back to the hospital wing of Vladimir , within a few months you would be home … think on it . |