Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for a few months " in BNC.

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1 Like no way I 've been out of work for a few months
2 One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure .
3 There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft .
4 ( 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 .
5 It was only fair that Neil Kinnock should be allowed to relinquish his post quickly , although the possibility of Roy Hattersley stepping in as deputy for a few months was ruled out too early .
6 Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office .
7 J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build .
8 Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years .
9 Dare I say that a set of vintage pickups and a lick of conductive paint would almost complete the sonic illusion , in the same way that burying the neck and body in peat for a few months would crown the guitar 's appearance !
10 I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no .
11 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 . ’
12 Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time .
13 Your lender and insurance company may put your endowment on ice for a few months .
14 That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime .
15 It 's been there er , for sale for a few months and sold it by February at a
16 After had been at U.C.L. for a few months , the C.R.C .
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