Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place . |
| 2 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
| 3 | Earnings per share in the third quarter rose from 17.4p to 18.77p and for the nine months from 45.82p to 48.84p . |
| 4 | Earnings per share in the third quarter rose from 17.4p to 18.77p and for the nine months from 45.82p to 48.84p . |
| 5 | Forty Minutes is following six patients during their two-day crash course in self-healing at the centre and during the nine months after ward . |
| 6 | Indeed , throughout September and October 1985 , and during the following months , the imagery of race continued to dominate debate about both the causes and the policy outcomes of the riots . |
| 7 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 8 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 9 | It was long , slow , difficult work , and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools . |
| 10 | ‘ Middlesbrough is richly endowed with religious communities and during the coming months we will need to give some careful thought as to how our own diocese can benefit from this moment of Grace for the whole church . ’ |
| 11 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
| 12 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 13 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 14 | It forms a record of not only the resources allocated , but also those requested , and after a few months of operating the system the project leaders ' requests become realistic and they even strike agreements with each other on timing and amount of resources in advance of the meeting . |
| 15 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 16 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 17 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |
| 18 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed . |
| 21 | Cocks married in 1688 Frances , daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear , Berkshire , and within a few months of being widowed , in 1724 , took as his second wife Mary , daughter of William Bethell of Swindon . |
| 22 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 23 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |
| 24 | Let the Staff College student consider how Harris was able to conjure from his original strength of 374 front line aircraft , and in a few months have some 1,047 aircraft set course for Koln in order to devastate 600 acres of the city ( plus the admirals and generals in Whitehall ) . |
| 25 | It 's time we had ministers who will listen to Social Services and in a few months time we shall have them , a Labour Government . |
| 26 | The Cabinet , however , even though shorn of Crosland , and also of Roy Jenkins on the right and Barbara Castle on the left for different reasons , still remained credible as an agent of authority , and in the early months of 1977 Britain slowly emerged towards a plateau of greater tranquillity and modest economic recovery . |
| 27 | He had become the representative voice of the nation under threat , and in the early months of 1940 he wrote a patriotic poem , " Defence of the Islands " , to accompany an exhibition of British war photographs at the New York World 's Fair . |
| 28 | He was a relatively wealthy man ; his annual income , from both his publishing salary and his royalties , was approximately £4,000 , and in the early months of this year his income from the New York production of The Cocktail Party was estimated at about £570 per week : this was no doubt why , in June , he was looking for an accountant . |
| 29 | Damory and Audley , the husbands of the other two co-heiresses , were vulnerable to Despenser 's expansionism and in the early months of 1321 they and the other marchers turned to Lancaster for help . |
| 30 | Dealers appeared to shrug off reports of falling industrial productivity , declining orders at both wholesale and retail level , and rising inflation and unemployment ; they were , however , troubled by the US administration 's failure to secure an early resolution of the banking crisis [ see p. 37953 ] , and in the early months of 1991 their confidence was to sink still further , as the dollar declined to levels of around $1.00=£0.50 . |