Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a few month " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This idea was developed further a few months later in the ‘ Marshall Plan ’ , a highly significant US commitment to European affairs . |
| 5 | The Mackenzies had invited the Keiths and their children , two-year-old Billy , and Roberta Keith , born only a few months before and named after Robert in Sydney , to join them for the festive season . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 10 | And you 've only worked here a few months ! ’ he said . |
| 11 | It was brilliantly sunny , as though summer had leapt forward a few months . |
| 12 | Syl 's previous engagement had ended only a few months before . |
| 13 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 14 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |