Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] months [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The third-ranking member of the CPV politburo , he had served as acting Premier for a few months in 1988 following the death of Pham Hung , but had then been dislodged from the post by the more conservative Do Muoi .
2 You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’
3 Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors .
4 The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford .
5 This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery .
6 Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose .
7 But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward .
8 She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings .
9 In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left .
10 You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice .
11 ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association .
12 ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease .
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