Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 2 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 3 | Mr Major said that not only had the Budget extended the export credit guarantee scheme but : ‘ Mr Lamont has also cut premiums over the last few months by as much as 27 per cent to help exporters . ’ |
| 4 | While that 's clearly the most important consideration for each of the districts over the next few months , while the selection process is going on , er bearing in mind what 's said in P P G three , we regard that as axiomatic and I I find it inconceivable that the the department would allow any new settlement to proceed nowadays without the agreement of the district council . |
| 5 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 6 | The September issue of Harpers & Queen marks the start of the new fashion season : a time when we look ahead to the autumn and pinpoint the directions of the next few months . |
| 7 | It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life . |
| 8 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 9 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |
| 10 | OMON troops had been blamed for a series of attacks on over 20 Baltic border posts over the previous few months . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've seen a big rise in unfurnished lettings over the past few months , ’ she says . |
| 12 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 13 | Attributing his illness to the mental stresses and strains of the last few months , they were ignorant of the true medical causes . |
| 14 | The Daily Mail , the Sun and many other such papers have contained a series of unpleasant , vituperative stories against individuals in the past few months . |
| 15 | Police added : ‘ We are investigating to see if there are any similarities to other attacks over the last few months in other parts of the country . |
| 16 | We know , for instance , that large-scale grounding of Foxbats has occurred on all major Red Air Force bases over the last few months . |
| 17 | In her second album , which takes a sensibly modest manifesto for its title , the mix is as before ; you will hear all the tracks over the next few months if you follow the charts . |
| 18 | Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways ( p. 82 ) , and , of course , infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity . |
| 19 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 20 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
| 21 | Bombings in the first few months of last year — among them attacks at Lurgan and Fivemiletown — accounted for part of the £100m bill . |
| 22 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 23 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
| 24 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 25 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I hope you still support firemen through their troubled times in the next few months . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 29 | There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life . |
| 30 | Pearl Assurance , the third biggest insurance company after the giant Prudential , with £9bn of reserves , asked home owners and tenants what they thought would happen to bank rates in the next few months . |