Example sentences of "[adv] a few month [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
2 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
3 | Selling the piano was only a few months into the marriage . |
4 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
5 | The headache was the Leyland Class 155 , withdrawn after only a few months with doors that jammed open . |
6 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
7 | In one case , a man was interviewed twice weekly for an hour , over a period of eight months , until only a few months before his death . |
8 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
9 | The students were freed only a few months before the end of their sentences , but the move is clearly intended to polish up China 's image abroad . |
10 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |
11 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
12 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
13 | Only a few months after vesting day , they were still wrestling with the enormous problems of reorganisation and the standardisation of the many different electricity tariffs they had inherited : this additional burden seemed to them too much . |
14 | However , in February 1925 , only a few months after entry to the rue d'Ulm , he was suffering from nervous depression and planned a trip to a Swiss sanatorium . |
15 | This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’ |
16 | Average age for the ceasing of menstruation is around 50 , but the hot flushes and sweating that can accompany it are more common after the periods have ended , and may last from just a few months to more than five years . |
17 | According to the event , the duration of this state may last from just a few months to many years . |
18 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |
19 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
20 | The French in South India were eliminated as a political power in the 1760 and 1761 campaigns ; the Moghul emperors were in no position to do anything about the rise of British power because , just a few months before the battle of Plassey , an Afghan army had marched south-east and plundered Delhi again . |
21 | This is just a few months before the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher . |
22 | The adventurous side of Kylie 's spirit eventually triumphed though and just a few months after her exams another audition was being set up . |
23 | Then , too , the Garfields of KILSBY and ASHBY ST LEDGERS were the forefathers of another president , James Garfield , whose tenure , however , was one of the briefest in American history ; his term was cut short by an assassin 's bullet just a few months after his inauguration . |
24 | Called the Autoglide , the opener has had its price cut by £100 to £346 ( including VAT ) just a few months after its launch , making is even better value for money . |
25 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
26 | Baghoomian organised Basquiat 's last show in New York , and after Basquiat died of a drug overdose in the spring of 1988 , just a few months after that show closed , Baghoomian claimed a fifty percent share of all the works in Basquiat 's estate , numbering in the hundreds . |
27 | That self-confidence had been acquired from the success of The Cocktail Party : it had opened in London in May 1950 , just a few months after the New York opening , and , although the audiences began to fall off in November , Sherek did not feel it necessary to close the play until February 1951 . |
28 | Here we are , just a few months after the announcement of the citizens charter , legislating to improve the services provided to citizens . |
29 | Although he is now a few months past the usual retirement age of 65 , Mr Sulzberger has not disclosed when he will go . |
30 | ( After quite a few months of use , I still think these to be the best settings for ploughed land . ) |