Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | In elections held in May 1990 the NLD had won an overwhelming victory , but during the following months the ruling military junta ( the State Law and Order Restoration Council — SLORC ) had shown little indication that it was planning a transfer of power to civilian rule . |
| 2 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 3 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 4 | But after a few months , I felt completely bored with the whole idea . |
| 5 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 6 | It probably looks a bit like hieroglyphics now , but in a few months , I guarantee that you will understand this and will begin to see a difference in your playing . |
| 7 | But in the nine months of carrying my child , the feelings and reactions of Michelle 's were very much the same as my own . |
| 8 | This left open the possibility of further Kindertransporte from countries threatened by Germany , but in the first months of the war no one was willing to engage in such defeatist speculation . |
| 9 | When arrested , Allitt weighed 13 stone , but in the following months she became anorexic , refusing to eat , and her weight plunged to around seven stone . |
| 10 | But in the last months her body began to reject the donor organs and she and her parents , Mike and Sandra Good , were told there was nothing more doctors could do for her . |
| 11 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 12 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 13 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 14 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
| 15 | OSF/1 was ACE 's primary Unix focus when the initiative was launched amidst much fanfare last year , but over the following months it became clear that DEC was the only major ACE member committed to using the operating system . |
| 16 | But over the next months they became convinced the couple had been killed by someone they knew . |