Example sentences of "[art] few months before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The tale of the prospective parliamentary candidate who , a few months before a General Election , was charged with a rape offence , and acquitted , haunted the debate and it was alleged that his whole prospective parliamentary career had been unnecessarily ruined . |
| 3 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
| 6 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 7 | The French in South India were eliminated as a political power in the 1760 and 1761 campaigns ; the Moghul emperors were in no position to do anything about the rise of British power because , just a few months before the battle of Plassey , an Afghan army had marched south-east and plundered Delhi again . |
| 8 | This is just a few months before the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 9 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 10 | We can not afford to wait t a few months before the next election . |
| 11 | ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease . |
| 12 | A few months before the wedding is also a good time to start a nail and skincare regime , particularly if you bite your nails or have problem skin . |
| 13 | The students were freed only a few months before the end of their sentences , but the move is clearly intended to polish up China 's image abroad . |