Example sentences of "of the [num ord] few month " in BNC.
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1 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
2 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
3 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
4 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
5 | Attributing his illness to the mental stresses and strains of the last few months , they were ignorant of the true medical causes . |
6 | BOTH America and Britain will probably run current-account surpluses in one of the next few months . |
7 | The community was to be governed according to the principle of ‘ Pantisocracy ’ — a word invented by Coleridge meaning ‘ equal rule by all ’ — and in the course of the next few months Pantisocracy in its broad details was discussed and argued into existence . |
8 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |
9 | During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit . |
10 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
11 | The September issue of Harpers & Queen marks the start of the new fashion season : a time when we look ahead to the autumn and pinpoint the directions of the next few months . |
12 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |
13 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |