Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few months [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
2 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
3 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
4 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
5 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
6 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
7 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
8 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
9 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |
10 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
11 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
12 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
13 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
14 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
15 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |