Example sentences of "within a [det] month " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 32 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 33 | Within a few months of her husband 's tragic death Annette knew she had to do something which would still involve her in politics . |
| 34 | Within a few months she expanded the business and took over a computer firm from Hertfordshire employing about 120 people . |
| 35 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 36 | Last night , her solicitor Tony Russell confirmed the writ was filed in the High Court and the case would be heard within a few months . |
| 37 | Until Tyson gets out of jail , which King is convinced will be within a few months , the promoter is shrewdly banking his hopes for big money on Chavez , the unbeaten WBC super-lightweight champion who is often referred to as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world . |
| 38 | Rot , either in the glue or the wood or both , was only too likely within a few months . |
| 39 | Within a few months , Charles firmly believed he had made the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 40 | Within a few months , seeds — which had lain dormant for many years — germinated . |
| 41 | If employees leave their organisations within a few months of relocation , the heavy financial investment in them will be wasted . |
| 42 | Within days of helping me you would be transferred back to the hospital wing of Vladimir , within a few months you would be home … think on it . |
| 43 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 44 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 45 | Yet within a few months of Richard 's returning to school he had moved in with Philip , leaving his own family to do so . |
| 46 | He wooed her and wed her within a few months . |
| 47 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 48 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 49 | Within a few months , 240 arrack shops in 200 villages had been forced to close . |
| 50 | Within a few months of Labour 's election victory , Herbert Morrison , who had overall charge of labour 's nationalisation programme , confirmed the Government 's intention of nationalising electricity and other fuel industries . |
| 51 | Within a few months George Dundas was himself commander of the Lutine , and on 2nd November transferred in this rank to the sloop Calpe , again newly commissioned , and with this record of command his career was firmly established and his subsequent rise rapid , for in this case Keith had made no mistake in patronising a friend . |
| 52 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 53 | For the Reaganites , economic policy was the legislative priority ; first came budget cuts and then tax reduction and it was essential that these should be in place within a few months , before the end of the honeymoon period . |
| 54 | Devastated , within a few months Kirchner committed suicide at his Davos home where he had lived since World War I. The museum has been designed by the young team of Zurich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer who won the brief in 1989 . |
| 55 | They have long incubation periods , often measured in years , but once manifested the disease usually progresses swiftly , without remission and uninfluenced by treatment , to death within a few months . |
| 56 | We very much wanted a family and both assumed that , within a few months , I 'd be pregnant . ’ |
| 57 | Within a few months of his execution a comment in the Notable British Trials volume which dealt with his case put this misgiving into perspective . |
| 58 | Within a few months many assurances were broken ; there were wistful , unfulfilled hopes of James Edward Stuart landing and asserting himself as King James VII ; and in the House of Lords an attempt by Scottish members to repeal the Act was defeated by only a small majority . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Within a few months of his resignation he was politically dead ; and the repose lost its savour as soon as it was uninterrupted by forced returns to the grindstone . |