Example sentences of "and [prep] a few 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 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
4 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | 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 . |