Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] several months " in BNC.
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1 | Charles followed his advance band rapidly , and laid siege to Pavia for several months . |
2 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
3 | Having already written for the NME for several months as the transvestite sex-poet Susan Williams I was nervous , a straw sucker acting brash in a den of sophisticates . |
4 | James Jeffrey , 50 , Charles Smith , also 50 , and Kevin Thorn , 33 , were arrested in November , 1990 , after anti-drug squad officers had kept them under surveillance in the Spanish capital and on the Costa del Sol for several months . |
5 | Foreign Minister Ali Alatas on Oct. 11 echoed criticisms levelled at Western countries by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed at an ASEAN meeting on Oct. 7 , over their failure to provide assistance in coping with large-scale fires under way in Indonesia for several months . |
6 | Odessa has a visa allowing her to stay in England for several months . |
7 | When he was seventeen he returned to China for several months . |
8 | We were planning a visit to Hong Kong for several months , as Michael was to be a visiting professor in the University there . |
9 | Although the railway 's opening ceremony had taken place on 25 October 1865 , the company was probably not granted running powers over the joint line from Stretford Bridge Junction to Craven Arms until several months had elapsed , for BCR trains did not begin to run into Craven Arms station until 8 January 1866 . |
10 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
11 | But it may be that the way forward is to look at secondment ( from the Dublin office has been seconded to Sri Lanka for several months . |
12 | ‘ No , there 's this beautiful Leningrad actress who went to Rome for several months . |
13 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
14 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |