Example sentences of "[noun pl] in 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Violence between Muslims and Hindus in India is reported to have claimed some 300 lives in the past few months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bombings in the first few months of last year — among them attacks at Lurgan and Fivemiletown — accounted for part of the £100m bill . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I hope you still support firemen through their troubled times in the next few months . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There have been a couple of announcements in the past few months which should be of interest to us . |
| 15 | Bill has got quite good at preparing little teas in the last few months . |
| 16 | After a fair few spot-on write-ups in the last few months , now the fashion pack moved in on him . |
| 17 | Leeds have bought so many players in the past few months that it is tempting to call the club New Leeds — although the fans are calling them Dad 's Army because they have bought so many stars over 30 . |
| 18 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 19 | The constant repetition by European politicians in the past few months that Maastricht will not necessarily mean change may have been tactically expedient , but squaring the circle in which the EC has snared itself requires , on the contrary , upheaval , not just in research policy . |
| 20 | We are looking forward to positive outcomes in the next few months , and will keep everybody informed of the progress . |
| 21 | ’ Here this approach will be explored by investigating one particularly appropriate episode in the social history of the Second World War — the evacuation of schoolchildren in the first few months after September 1939 . |