Example sentences of "for a [adj] months [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 2 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 3 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |
| 4 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 5 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 6 | Of the three , the split between Sampras , 20 and Brandi , from whom he parted for a few months at the end of 1990 , was the greatest surprise . |
| 7 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 8 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 9 | After completing his studies at Glasgow University , Gavin worked for a few months at a salmon farm near Ft William , checking for virus infection . |
| 10 | He was educated at Harrow , from where he went for a few months into his father 's City office , which he hated ; and he spent a term in Göttingen , learning German . |
| 11 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 12 | ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association . |
| 13 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 14 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 15 | For a few months in the summer of 1916 a ‘ Women 's Peace Crusade ’ had been active in Glasgow . |
| 16 | This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen . |
| 17 | For a few months in 1796 she and her mother joined her father in Sligo ; here she studied the Irish language . |
| 18 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 19 | The third-ranking member of the CPV politburo , he had served as acting Premier for a few months in 1988 following the death of Pham Hung , but had then been dislodged from the post by the more conservative Do Muoi . |
| 20 | Except for a few months in 1986 , after the collapse in the oil price , underlying inflation has not been this low since February 1968 . ’ |
| 21 | About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house . |
| 22 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 23 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |