Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] months [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 2 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 3 | Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 . |
| 4 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 5 | The newly founded Military Miscellany acquired a readership of 6,000 in a few months by adopting an openly reformist position vis-à-vis the army . |
| 6 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |