Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 2 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 3 | He saw a good deal of Eden in the next months , and with a genuine desire to see him Prime Minister gave him a lot of advice . |
| 4 | Thus , while the British government shared the concern in Washington over Soviet encouragement of a separatist movement in the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan in the early months of 1946 , Bevin wisely chose to act merely in parallel with the United States at the UN . |
| 5 | That is the litany which has been heard from solicitors throughout Scotland over the past months — from the spacious offices of the big city firms to the modest surroundings of rural practices . |
| 6 | Julie Godwin , pictured above with Sophie at a few months old , was raped and killed with her holiday pal Elizabeth Over as the pair sunbathed on a beach in South Africa . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There are inevitably areas where our views diverge and these will be the subject of further discussion and negotiation with DTI in the coming months . |
| 9 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
| 10 | The first group of paintings in which this new development is clearly visible are the canvases executed during the few weeks spent at La Rue-des-Bois in the autumn and in Paris during the succeeding months . |
| 11 | Thus , our two multi-agency enumeration surveys had identified more than 2,200 individual problem drug users in Wirral in the 24 months ending July 1986 , which is a two-year prevalence rate of 8.4 per 1,000 of the adult population . |
| 12 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number and size of community care grants in Newcastle upon Tyne in the six months April to October 1991 . |
| 14 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A sunshine-filled adaption of Peter Mayle 's A Year In Provence with John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan is expected to be one of the viewing highlights on BBC1 in the grey months ahead . |
| 17 | The University decreed zero hope for recovery for Arthur , though they tried everything they could , and one of the personnel devoted his whole life to Arthur during the six months he was hospitalised there . |
| 18 | From there , five companies , each of 300 men , went to France in the early months of 1940 . |
| 19 | In May the World Bank-sponsored Aid to Bangladesh Consortium had increased longer-term assistance to Bangladesh for the 12 months running to June 1982 [ see p. 38177 ] . |
| 20 | Dad Uzzell , as much as the writer Ashcroft Noble , was a powerful formative influence on Thomas in the eighteen months between his abandoning St. Paul 's and entering Oxford . |
| 21 | Forced March To Freedom ( Ryerson Press , 100pp , illus , sbk , $12.95 ) by Robert Buckman is the Author 's story of PoWs of Stalag Luft III and their two forced marches across Germany in the final months of World War Two . |
| 22 | After had been at U.C.L. for a few months , the C.R.C . |
| 23 | Louis Malle 's moving , semi-autobiographical film is set in a provincial boarding school at Fontainebleu in the last months of World War Two ; twelve-year-old Quentin may be bright , but he does n't understand why new boy Jean Bornet should be so bullied by pupils and protected by teachers . |
| 24 | The steps would be : ( i ) the drafting by CODESA within a few months of a constitution for a transitional government ; ( ii ) a national referendum on the transitional constitution , probably before the end of the year ; ( iii ) a general election to choose a new multiracial parliament and government , the composition of both to be determined by the transitional constitution [ see p. 38422 for NP 's views on composition of both bodies ] ; ( iv ) the commencement of rule by the transitional government , on the authority of the transitional parliament , which would take over from CODESA as the negotiating forum for the " final " constitution ; and ( v ) adoption of the final constitution , probably with another referendum . |