Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] few months " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 2 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 3 | For the first few months of 1952 flying concentrated on standardising the instructors and from February , with the arrival of the first B.2s , type conversion for the staff . |
| 4 | This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales . |
| 5 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 6 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 7 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 8 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 9 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 10 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 11 | And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz. |
| 12 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 13 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 14 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |
| 15 | He has held the position on a part-time basis for the past few months . |
| 16 | For the past few months , the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been trying , without success , to find a drawings curator to replace Jacob Bean , who has just retired . |
| 17 | He wished Annabel were not so insecure and dependent upon him ; for the past few months , as she waited for Avanti to make up its mind , she had needed constant emotional support and reassurance from Scott , who had felt her clinging to him , almost like a physical weight on his back . |
| 18 | Christina had seen it every day for the past few months , but had to admit that tonight it looked especially magical . |
| 19 | It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months . |
| 20 | ‘ I tolerated her while Ma was alive to keep the peace for Ma 's sake , except for the past few months , but no more . |
| 21 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 22 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 23 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 24 | All the anger , frustration and hurt finally exploded into action in violent contrast to the lethargy that had been her constant companion for the past few months . |
| 25 | I have n't read anything official from Elland Road for the past few months , so I 'm presuming that this season coming we wo n't need premier cards to go to away games . |
| 26 | The laser has been developed and built in Banbury … its been undergoing sea tests on the south coast for the past few months … |
| 27 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 28 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 29 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 30 | A downstairs room , once his study , had been turned into a bedroom for the last few months , and his bed faced the french windows leading into the garden he loved so well . |