Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] few months [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 2 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 3 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 4 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 5 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
| 6 | If these operations are to be distributed evenly across our region , for the next few months we should concentrate on patients from other health districts ( assuming equal clinical priority ) . |
| 7 | So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down . |
| 8 | For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines . |
| 9 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
| 10 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
| 11 | During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit . |
| 12 | Within the next few months he hopes to introduce an individual fitness programme for people using the centres . |
| 13 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |
| 14 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
| 15 | Textiles workers , Greater London Staff Association , Apex , tailor and garment workers , they were all wooed by other unions but they all had the good sense to merge into the G M B. In the next few months we 'll be joined by members of E F T A T. I am delighted that the Special E F T A T Conference voted in favour of the G M B. I welcome that decision and I pay tribute to the many colleagues who worked so hard to achieve that victory . |
| 16 | ‘ In the next few months we will see what the public think we should spend our money on , as we look at the results of a survey . ’ |
| 17 | A bright future for London 's securities firms would , oddly , be nearer if in the next few months they once again lost oodles of cash . |
| 18 | In the next few months I studied hard with Mr Pocket , who was always a most kind and helpful teacher . |
| 19 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 20 | In the last few months he has been especially active ; for instance , in response to the criticism that art education is much neglected , he announced in January the renovation or rehousing of four art schools , including the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris . |
| 21 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 22 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 23 | In the last few months it has introduced a mortgage rescue package and plans to use empty flats above shops in a further bit to get waiting lists down . |
| 24 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 25 | Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it . |
| 26 | Over the last few months he had become rather withdrawn and mistrustful ; a subdued version of his former self . |
| 27 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 28 | Over the last few months I 've read with some considerable interest and humour all the back-biting and jibing from the Pittman and Peavey camps . |
| 29 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 30 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |