Example sentences of "[prep] a few months [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
2 | After a few months though he seemed to accept the situation . |
3 | She left after a few months and had a home tutor . |
4 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
5 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
6 | There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape . |
7 | He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised . |
10 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
11 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
12 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
13 | Another method of birth control must be used for a few months until two consecutive tests show there are no sperm left . |
14 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
15 | I could let you have it for a few months until you get sorted out . ’ |
16 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
17 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | They would stay for a few months and go back . |
21 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
22 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
23 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
24 | I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again . |
25 | ‘ Timothy , four , has been learning cello for a few months and loves it . ’ |
26 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
27 | I thought I would get a job there but I could n't for a few months and er , my wife and two children joined me there and my brother 's wife joined us there , and two of us bought the house in Luton . |
28 | In this case , leave it for a few months and try going again later . |
29 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
30 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |