Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 3 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 4 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 5 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 6 | ‘ Only for a few months , yes . |
| 7 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 8 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is a fundamental contradiction between the official figures ( which , as Teddy perfectly fairly pointed out , showed that 75 per cent of those who went on Government schemes did secure subsequent employment ) and the common experience that such jobs tended to last only for a few months . |
| 11 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 12 | Institutionalism sets in after a few months , and active people slow down and soon learn not to complain . |
| 13 | Perhaps in a few months ’ time it will be different . |
| 14 | 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 … ’ |
| 15 | 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 … ’ |
| 16 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 17 | Studies were over for a few months . |
| 18 | Wars had been fought before by the regular Army , and this one , it was supposed , would be the same : it would be over in a few months , it not weeks . |
| 19 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 20 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 21 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 22 | The customer gives up after a few months waiting . |
| 23 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
| 24 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 25 | The DCs became ‘ approved ’ , and would be , probably within a few months , candidates for being hard copied . |
| 26 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 27 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 28 | A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago . |
| 29 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 30 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |