Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] a few months " in BNC.

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1 The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death .
2 Montenegro trebled its area at Turkey 's expense by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 , but the treaty was never ratified , and the Congress of Berlin a few months later forced Montenegro to surrender some of its gains .
3 This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before .
4 De Gaulle 's argument against Mendès-France was essentially the same that he had used against Eisenhower in Strasbourg a few months earlier : circumstances matter .
5 He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service .
6 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
7 Mind you , I was in a pub in Manchester a few months ago when Eric Le Prat walked in , but that 's a different story …
8 The execution of a provo murder gang in Coagh a few months ago brought about the usual uproar from the republican politicians .
9 In a letter to Gould a few months later , Lear , with characteristic self-pity , excuses his poor output :
10 ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston .
11 Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . "
12 In the View from the Hotel Mistral , executed on Braque 's return to Paris a few months later , the influence of Cézanne is even more marked .
13 In 1978 the Japanese-American physicist J. J. Sakurai ( who died tragically while on a visit to CERN a few months ago ) and his student P. Q. Hung answered this question in a remarkably simple way .
14 But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later .
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