Example sentences of "only [prep] a [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 2 | ‘ Only for a few months , yes . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is a fundamental contradiction between the official figures ( which , as Teddy perfectly fairly pointed out , showed that 75 per cent of those who went on Government schemes did secure subsequent employment ) and the common experience that such jobs tended to last only for a few months . |
| 7 | Albert Dawes signed for Crystal Palace FC from Northampton Town on the Wednesday before Christmas 1933 and , in two periods with the Palace before the war ( interrupted only by a fifteen month spell when he helped Luton Town to the 3rd Division South championship in 1937 ) , he became Palace 's third highest goalscorer of all time in the Football League — only Peter Simpson and George Clarke have improved upon Albert 's total of 91 League goals . |