Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few months [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a few months in 1986 , after the collapse in the oil price , underlying inflation has not been this low since February 1968 . ’ |
| 2 | This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen . |
| 3 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 4 | It forms a record of not only the resources allocated , but also those requested , and after a few months of operating the system the project leaders ' requests become realistic and they even strike agreements with each other on timing and amount of resources in advance of the meeting . |
| 5 | Cocks married in 1688 Frances , daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear , Berkshire , and within a few months of being widowed , in 1724 , took as his second wife Mary , daughter of William Bethell of Swindon . |
| 6 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |