Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [det] months [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third-ranking member of the CPV politburo , he had served as acting Premier for a few months in 1988 following the death of Pham Hung , but had then been dislodged from the post by the more conservative Do Muoi . |
| 2 | You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 3 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 4 | The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford . |
| 5 | If employees leave their organisations within a few months of relocation , the heavy financial investment in them will be wasted . |
| 6 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
| 7 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
| 8 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 9 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 10 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 11 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 12 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 13 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 14 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 15 | The steps would be : ( i ) the drafting by CODESA within a few months of a constitution for a transitional government ; ( ii ) a national referendum on the transitional constitution , probably before the end of the year ; ( iii ) a general election to choose a new multiracial parliament and government , the composition of both to be determined by the transitional constitution [ see p. 38422 for NP 's views on composition of both bodies ] ; ( iv ) the commencement of rule by the transitional government , on the authority of the transitional parliament , which would take over from CODESA as the negotiating forum for the " final " constitution ; and ( v ) adoption of the final constitution , probably with another referendum . |
| 16 | ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association . |
| 17 | ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease . |