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

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1 Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads .
2 Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too .
3 This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth .
4 Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium .
5 They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production .
6 Yet within a few months of Richard 's returning to school he had moved in with Philip , leaving his own family to do so .
7 Yet within a few months of starting the technique here two men were badly injured in a roof fall .
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