Example sentences of "a few months [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised . |
| 2 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
| 3 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |
| 4 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 5 | Frohnmayer had been nominated by Bush in the summer of 1989 , a few months after the NEA controversy began with the popular outcry against its indirect support for ‘ Piss Christ ’ , Andrea Serrano 's photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a container of urine . |
| 6 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |
| 7 | Given that it is only a few months since the Secretary of State appointed him under a two-year contract , will the Leader of the House arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement to the House next week on the matter ? |
| 8 | The phones began ringing off the hook at Rugby US a few months before the World Cup began , with callers wanting to know when and where they could see the matches on television . |
| 9 | His men had taken power in the province that summer of 1922 , just around the time Fantina was born , a few months before the Leader reached the capital on his famous march . |
| 10 | A few months before the agreement runs out , the dealer phones to discuss the three standard options . |
| 11 | I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published ! |