Example sentences of "few months before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 2 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
| 3 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 4 | Most of the swing to the Conservatives between the summer of 1986 and the summer of 1987 occurred during the winter of 1986–7 , and there was relatively little swing in the last few months before the election . |
| 5 | Most of the swing back to the government occurred during the winter of 1986–7 and there was relatively little swing in the last few months before the election . |
| 6 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |
| 7 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 8 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 9 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 10 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
| 11 | About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house . |
| 12 | But a few months before its off-Broadway opening , Eh ? had had its successful American premiere at the Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati , Ohio , in which 26-year-old Sam Waterston played the lead to the author 's supreme satisfaction . |
| 13 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
| 16 | The tale of the prospective parliamentary candidate who , a few months before a General Election , was charged with a rape offence , and acquitted , haunted the debate and it was alleged that his whole prospective parliamentary career had been unnecessarily ruined . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The latest iteration is the PI/open Unix version , which was launched by Prime a few months before its effective demise . |
| 19 | A few months before Margaret 's marriage to Philip of Burgundy Charles V had also gained an important victory in the Iberian peninsula . |
| 20 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 21 | This is just a few months before the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 22 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 23 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 24 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 25 | The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 30 | She brought her haul of county match appearances up to 99 , while the number of times she played for her club — she was playing for Ganton up until a few months before her death — must have constituted a record . |