Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] only a [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
| 2 | He could hear the loud yet muffled interchanges between his father , John Carter , and his stepmother of only a few months , Rhoda . |
| 3 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |
| 4 | Bernard the chamberlain held his high office for only a few months , in 829 – 30 . |
| 5 | In all this time Kiev itself was in the hands of the short-lived Ukrainian Republic for only a few months . |