Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] months " in BNC.
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1 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
2 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
3 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
4 | Institutionalism sets in after a few months , and active people slow down and soon learn not to complain . |
5 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
6 | Studies were over for a few months . |
7 | Wars had been fought before by the regular Army , and this one , it was supposed , would be the same : it would be over in a few months , it not weeks . |
8 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
9 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
10 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
11 | The customer gives up after a few months waiting . |
12 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
13 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
14 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
15 | A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago . |
16 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
17 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |