Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] few months [pron] " 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 past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
6 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
7 | For the last few months everything has rather fallen apart . |
8 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
9 | 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 ) . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit . |
15 | Within the next few months he hopes to introduce an individual fitness programme for people using the centres . |
16 | As I say , we 're now , we shall now be working on the er , on a financial strategy , so that we 've got more detailed costings er , available to us , erm , but I think members will be interested to know that erm , within the next few months there will , we shall be taking part , er , as part of a wider national exercise , in an exercise undertaken by the District Audit Commission , on Children 's Services , so that we , I think we shall be in good stead , to have this as a base as a working document for that erm , Audit Commission exercise . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | In the next few months I studied hard with Mr Pocket , who was always a most kind and helpful teacher . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | In the next few months there will be opportunities for discussion across the Region on community care issues and I hope you will let us have your views . |
25 | There have been a couple of announcements in the past few months which should be of interest to us . |
26 | Sir , — In the past few months we have heard much regarding possible reforms in the working of parliament . |
27 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
28 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
29 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
30 | In the past few months he has sided with those in the party and the army who have long wanted a crackdown . |