Example sentences of "[art] few months [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work . |
| 2 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 3 | The steps would be : ( i ) the drafting by CODESA within a few months of a constitution for a transitional government ; ( ii ) a national referendum on the transitional constitution , probably before the end of the year ; ( iii ) a general election to choose a new multiracial parliament and government , the composition of both to be determined by the transitional constitution [ see p. 38422 for NP 's views on composition of both bodies ] ; ( iv ) the commencement of rule by the transitional government , on the authority of the transitional parliament , which would take over from CODESA as the negotiating forum for the " final " constitution ; and ( v ) adoption of the final constitution , probably with another referendum . |
| 4 | Could n't you dedicate a few months of the year to naked men ? |
| 5 | This is done for its own sake but it is found that the primary sufferer will quite commonly seek treatment through his or her appropriate Anonymous Fellowship within a few months of the family member seeking his or her own recovery . |
| 6 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 7 | Selling the piano was only a few months into the marriage . |
| 8 | After a few months as a general news reporter I was given a wider range of assignments and when Jim Miller left , my regular beats included the monthly School Board meetings and the daily Police Court and High Court sessions . |
| 9 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 10 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 11 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 12 | But David Townsend , director of Croydon SSD , has complained to Herbert Laming , SSI chief inspector , that inspectors should wait a few months for the reforms to bed down . |
| 13 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After completing his studies at Glasgow University , Gavin worked for a few months at a salmon farm near Ft William , checking for virus infection . |
| 17 | Of the three , the split between Sampras , 20 and Brandi , from whom he parted for a few months at the end of 1990 , was the greatest surprise . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although he is now a few months past the usual retirement age of 65 , Mr Sulzberger has not disclosed when he will go . |
| 20 | ( Oh , yes , I had learnt to play this whilst spending a few months in a rotting gaol due to one of the many misunderstandings which plagued my life . ) |
| 21 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 22 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 23 | For a few months in the summer of 1916 a ‘ Women 's Peace Crusade ’ had been active in Glasgow . |
| 24 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 25 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 26 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |
| 27 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 28 | A few months after the aggravation I started her on Kali carb. 0/1 , progressing through 0/6. with steady amelioration , increasing energy and emotional well-being . |
| 29 | ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association . |
| 30 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |