Example sentences of "a mere [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reputation , style and personal charm enabled him to recover from serious mismatches , such as the ill-advised moving from ITT to RCA of Maurice Valente , who lasted a mere six months in his new job . |
| 2 | He was sure it would work for him and his doggedness was rewarded , when , after using the new tool for a mere six months , he retained his Ryder Cup place and ended the 1989 season in 11th place on the money list with more than £188,000 . |
| 3 | Just , just a mere six months . |
| 4 | Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Don Giovanni received its first performance in February 1787 during the Venice Carnival , a mere eight months before the Prague première of Mozart 's version . |
| 5 | Neil Kinnock took eight years to ditch the views of his mentor Aneurin Bevan , John Smith has taken a mere eight months to ditch those of Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 6 | Similar fates were to befall those children called Charles : Charles Thynne Titford ( the influence of the Carpenter family at work here in the choice of a second Christian name ) survived for a mere 11 months , and a further Charles was dead and buried within three weeks of his birth . |
| 7 | Though a mere 18 months old in this incarnation , the band already have a healthy roster of tunes which walk the fine line between Sly Stone funk and ‘ Abbey Road ’ songsmithery . |
| 8 | In 1975 , women with husbands in social class V gave birth for the first time a mere nine months after marriage , as at most times in the past . |
| 9 | For the novice , who had spent a mere two months in training in the city , far from home in Scottish pit village or Norfolk town , the introduction to beat work was like plunging into a cold shower . |
| 10 | Recently , a high-ranking defector from North Korea informed western intelligence that his country is a mere 12 months away from producing a functional nuclear weapon . |
| 11 | Yet this is the same Chancellor who was forced into a humiliating climbdown on his economic policies a mere three months ago . |
| 12 | However , after the Commissioner had been in office for a mere three months the Government introduced a Green Paper which proposed to extend her powers significantly , and under the Employment Act 1990 , section 10 , she was given power to assist members in enforcement of their common law contractual rights against the union . |
| 13 | I got the drinks in and discovered that Dosh and Freddie were flat-sharing in Willesden and were both typists up from darkest Bedfordshire a mere three months before in search of bright lights , word-processor experience and more than six grand a year . |
| 14 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |