Example sentences of "[vb past] a few months [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 2 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
| 3 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 4 | The post of chief operating officer that the Foundation created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 5 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 6 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 7 | Richard 's turn came a few months later . |
| 8 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
| 9 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |
| 10 | It happened a few months later . |
| 11 | Of the present-day staff , only terminal manager was at Woodacon in February 1967 , although — the most senior of Woodacon 's drivers — joined a few months later . |
| 12 | Sapura Holdings Sdn Bhd , Kuala Lumpur will launch Malaysia 's first locally designed and manufactured cellular portable telephone in August : the unit will launch two models — one for the 900MHz network followed a few months later by another for the proposed 800MHz network and the new phone could double Sapura 's current 10% share of Malaysia 's mobile phone market . |
| 13 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
| 14 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 15 | Phil Mitchell , ex-FYT field officer for the North West , and his wife Lyn , decided a few months ago to open up their home to young people . |
| 16 | Le Monde de l'Art , established a few months ago in Hippolyte Boulanger 's former ceramics factory , which for many years housed the poster museum , the Musée de l'Affiche , is a place devoted to art and spectacle . |
| 17 | The world of dance has lost to AIDS not only its two biggest stars of the modern era , Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn , but also many less well-known talents ; they include a French choreographer , Dominique Bagouet , who died a few months ago in his early 30s . |
| 18 | My wife died a few months ago . ’ |
| 19 | He died a few months ago . ’ |
| 20 | When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche . |
| 21 | He died a few months later , and was buried 27 June 1662 . |
| 22 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 23 | She had behaved like this when his grandmother died a few months before . |
| 24 | VALE Royal Environment Network , formed a few months ago from conservation groups in the area , meets this evening in Northwich Memorial Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 25 | One of the concerns of people in the north is whether sufficient finances will be provided to ensure that the project about which the Secretary of State spoke a few months ago will be allowed to continue . |
| 26 | Then , I looked again at a superficially rather strange SF trilogy that appeared a few months ago ( Schrodinger 's Cat , by Robert Anton Wilson , sphere , 1982 ) . |
| 27 | The pact between Hitler and Chamberlain at Munich in September 1938 had confirmed Eliot 's sense that the civilization of which he was a part was a worthless and immoral one : " I felt a deep personal guilt and shame for my country and for myself as part of that country , " he wrote a few months later . |
| 28 | Retaining the characteristics of the original composite steel/concrete Thor Beam , launched a few months ago , a new version for use with metal deck flooring has now been introduced by ConstrucThor . |