Example sentences of "[det] months [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 2 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 3 | A few months later a man living in Herne Bay in Kent found a live earthworm in his garden after a rainstorm . |
| 4 | A few months later a shuttle carried Jaq up to a great black ship circling in orbit . |
| 5 | Leave was refused at first instance and in the Court of Appeal , though a few months later a Practice Direction ( [ 1986 ] 2 All ER 226 ) was issued indicating the collective view of the judges that solicitors should be permitted to appear in the High Court or Court of Appeal in formal or unopposed proceedings . |
| 6 | I was n't therefore able to recommend this film when a few months later a woman from Nottingham requested a loan . |
| 7 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 8 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 9 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 10 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |