Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [det] months [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
| 2 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 3 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 4 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
| 5 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 6 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 7 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |
| 8 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 9 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 10 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
| 11 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 12 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |