Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a few month " in BNC.
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1 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
2 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
3 | I did get a bit paranoid for a few months , stopped using the tube . |
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 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
6 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
7 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
8 | Rot , either in the glue or the wood or both , was only too likely within a few months . |
9 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
10 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
11 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
12 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
13 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
14 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
15 | Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 . |
16 | While Cameroun 's economic activity returned to normal within a few months , the experience of the three attempted coups , and particularly of the last , undermined the sense of renewal which Paul Biya 's elevation to the presidency had achieved . |
17 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
18 | The newly founded Military Miscellany acquired a readership of 6,000 in a few months by adopting an openly reformist position vis-à-vis the army . |
19 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |