Example sentences of "a [adj] months [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | A few months previously she would have gone on to implore Camille not to let her friends eat everything in the fridge . |
2 | A few months ago we mentioned that a computerised welfare benefits package was available from a medical school research and development team in London . |
3 | A few months ago we looked at the Fender Hot Rod Strat , featuring a DiMarzio humbucker at the bridge : an off-the-peg version of one of the most common custom options requested of guitar repairmen today . |
4 | In the years since , we 've kept a Northern Ireland file , and a few months ago we had collected enough encouraging evidence to make us think that a concerted effort would enable us to name the man most consistently pointed at as being in control of the IRA , Martin McGuinness . |
5 | A few months ago they were a rag-bag of local pressure groups . |
6 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
7 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
8 | ‘ A few months ago she was in her full health and it was you we were worried about , ’ Michael cried . |
9 | He added : ‘ A few months ago she went berserk . |
10 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |
11 | A few months ago she sent me a letter , informing me that during a recent visit to All Saints church , Gresford , she had discovered that the church contained a standing stone . |
12 | A few months ago she would have needed to buy a larger size , but it looked good , she had to admit . |
13 | A FEW MONTHS AGO I GAVE MY IMPRESSIONS of the sort of thing a typical record critic tends to look for in putting together a review . |
14 | Dear Doctor I own a Tokai TST-50 Strat copy and up until a few months ago I could n't fault its sound or setup . |
15 | A few months ago I bought a secondhand Singer 2310 machine with an electric motor . |
16 | A few months ago I asked you to write to the magazine with your queries about Silver machines , and suggestions for the subjects you 'd like me to write about . |
17 | A few months ago I visited the Mecca of soccer fanzines — SportsPages in Charing Cross Road , London . |
18 | A few months ago I had the privilege of visiting the brand new Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York City . |
19 | Yeah I mean a few months ago I had absolutely no idea at all what |
20 | I sound like Piers , she thought suddenly , when a few months ago I would have giggled a bit at a remark like that . |
21 | When Liverpool beat them 7-1 in a pre-season friendly a few months ago I think a few people thought the Prenton bubble had burst . |
22 | Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches . |
23 | Whereas a few months ago it was n't tat obvious . |
24 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
25 | Er , Jim , Birmingham , West er , Midlands er , supporting er , the sectionalization of the union because erm , we were told a few months ago it was passed for nineteen ninety one . |
26 | Even a few months ago it would have been unthinkable that Howard Kendall 's Moody Blues should face Brian Clough 's Nottingham Forest , as will happen on Saturday , in a match billed as a ‘ relegation battle . ’ |
27 | Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ? |
28 | A few months ago he died , and his wife sold the house and went to live with her sister . |
29 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
30 | Then a few months later we got a phone call from him asking myself and the singer to come out to Britain , and so we came out . |