Example sentences of "[adv] a few months [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago .
2 This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later .
3 Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind .
4 It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later .
5 Now only a few months later , it is itself superseded .
6 Moreover , in this particular case the justices were hearing this application on 27 January 1992 against the background which included the making of a full care order on 15 May 1991 , an order which , as I have already indicated , was made after hearing submissions by the guardian ad litem and by the local authority which might seem to be in marked distinction to the submissions being made now , only a few months later .
7 The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes .
8 Christmas was only a few months away , after all , and then he 'd be back .
9 The general election was now only a few months away .
10 This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously .
11 Only a few months ago , he was in prison for ‘ subversion ’ and ‘ anti-state activities ’ ; but yesterday , before the day was out , he was being congratulated as a worthy successor to the country 's first leader , Tomas Garrigue Masaryk .
12 Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches .
13 The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December .
14 I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market .
15 Only a few months ago , Action newsletter ( issue Nov/Dec 1991 ) reported that Radio RIN , which has successfully broadcast for eight years , had recently boosted its signal , reaching more children in different Mexican states .
16 From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it .
17 Ali 's Dad died only a few months ago .
18 ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit .
19 It was only a few months ago , but it seemed like years , since the young girl , who kept herself to herself , and thought she knew what she wanted from life , unpacked them with secret glee .
20 Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms .
21 Only a few months ago , Neath borough council complained that it did not have enough money for housing .
22 As , only a few months ago , she very charmingly killed a similar measure that I had introduced I doubly welcome her support now .
23 The new MOT exhaust emissions test , which was introduced only a few months ago , will also play a significant part in cleaning up the air .
24 The present Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities was still defending the poll tax at the time of the fated Ribble Valley by-election , only a few months ago .
25 I can understand that , because the Bill is so complicated and is born of desperation and stridency , it is difficult to explain , especially for Conservative Members who , only a few months ago , were defending the poll tax and saying how good it was .
26 We saw that only a few months ago when the right hon. Gentleman vetoed the appointment of a Labour city councillor in favour of the appointment of his Tory placeman .
27 Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago .
28 When we get to the jobs erm side of it the jobs I I I 'm accused outside this afternoon of of putting in jeopardy one thousand something jobs erm , this authority got rid of seven hundred jobs , education jobs er only a few months ago and there 's many more , something on the region of two thousand jobs will be lost in this authority without a protest .
29 A reformed chocoholic and one who turned her back on butter only a few months ago , I was interested to see if my attempts to live more healthily had borne fruit .
30 Witnesses said some of the floors of the new building , opened only a few months ago , were sagging .
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