Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [art] few month " in BNC.
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| 1 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 2 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 3 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Coffey died in Bromley , Middlesex , 26 November 1852 , his eldest son Aeneas having died a few months earlier . |
| 5 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 7 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |
| 8 | It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic . |
| 9 | But you 've got a few months left , enough time for a very shrewd operator to move in . |
| 10 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 11 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 12 | Suddenly recalling an incident that had happened a few months previously , she gave a small , twisted smile . |
| 13 | Attacks have continued every few months since then . |
| 14 | We 've had our spats which have lasted a few months , but if anything , I think that sort of thing strengthens a friendship . |