Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a few months [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 2 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 3 | I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again . |
| 4 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 5 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 6 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 7 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 8 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 9 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
| 10 | ‘ Timothy , four , has been learning cello for a few months and loves it . ’ |
| 11 | It 's been there er , for sale for a few months and sold it by February at a |
| 12 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |