Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 2 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 3 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Coffey died in Bromley , Middlesex , 26 November 1852 , his eldest son Aeneas having died a few months earlier . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 7 | House Martins nest in many villages and some larger towns and in 1971 three pairs were found nesting 1.2km. from the site of a gas works that had closed a few months previously . |
| 8 | It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic . |
| 9 | But you 've got a few months left , enough time for a very shrewd operator to move in . |
| 10 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 11 | Suddenly recalling an incident that had happened a few months previously , she gave a small , twisted smile . |
| 12 | We 've had our spats which have lasted a few months , but if anything , I think that sort of thing strengthens a friendship . |