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Example sentences for "many months"

  • It was hunger that was driving him, the importunate hunger of many months, apparent in his lean face and shrunken figure.

  • Afterwards, of course, he would have to borrow another ten pounds from Dicky, hire some den at a few shillings a week, and try his luck for as many months as his money held out.

  • And the secret sources of his inspiration, sealed for so many months, were opened and flowed with the flowing of the stream; and over them the deep flood of his longing and his misery rose and broke and mingled with the tumult.

  • One would not leave it methinks till it comes to the worst, and that time cannot be many months off.

  • We have scarce had a moment's drought since you went, no more than for so many months before.

  • Take notice of the married in a week; the love that was so many months in ripening, could not stay above a week.

  • The affair reduces itself thus to so many months spent in physical exercise.

  • She had scarcely a stronger regret than for her past coldness; and the person, whom she had been so many months neglecting, was now the very one on whom she would have lavished every distinction of regard or sympathy.

  • I saw Pike heave a sigh, and knew he was thinking of the beloved wife and children whom he had not seen for so many months, and might not see for many other weary months to come, possibly never.

  • It is joyous to meet a friend after so many months!

  • After so many months my fingers bent stiffly to the strings.

  • The house on the Strathleckie side of the property can be let; and as for Netherglen, it would be an advantage for the place if you made it your home for as many months in the year as you chose.

  • Hugo had not seen her for many months; he had left Scotland almost immediately after Brian's departure, with the full intention of setting foot in it no more.

  • But I have heard of the crew of a ship being there for as many months--and more.

  • Flurried, and unaccustomed since so many months to the civilized way of putting on his clothes, and unable to guide his feet properly, in his hurry he tore his uniform trousers almost in two.

  • Now, at length, for the first time in many months, every private soldier could boast of a pair of breeches and a pair of brogues.

  • Here they walked up and down during two hours, and, in that time, did much more business than the plenipotentiaries at Ryswick were able to despatch in as many months.

  • This she told me many months after, when I met her on a journey.

  • The money had been collecting for many months, and, in this our necessity, it had been put into the heart of this brother to bring it.

  • It was only after the consideration of many months, and after much self-examination as to my motives, and after much earnest prayer, that I came to the conclusion to write this little work.

  • I therefore ought to have said to myself, if I cannot wait quietly, though it be many months longer, before the Lord shows me clearly His will concerning the matter, how then can I be fit for missionary work?

  • I would not read those telegrams, or Stewart’s Journal, for a good deal, when I think how we kept feeding on delusions for so many months.

  • Although he had already made considerable progress in his measures for distressing the town, still he had many steps to take before he could actually make himself master of it; and one unlucky moment might destroy the work of many months.

  • But vain would be the attempt to depict his feelings when he surveyed the devastation which a single moment had caused in the work of so many months.

  • The ruinous state of the bridge appeared to be a secret to them, and though it was impossible to repair in a few hours the work of so many months, yet a great point would be gained if it could be done even in appearance.

  • The literature of medicine contains many extraordinary records of prolonged fecal retention, ranging from a few weeks to many months.

  • Cases have been known to occur between the fourth and twenty-fourth months of life, and to last from two to six weeks, or just as many months.

  • Cases of cerebral mischief producing such effects would rapidly develop into serious states, whereas in lithaemia there are great fluctuations, but no apparent progress in many months.

  • Yes; especially such as the poor feel, who may have tasted nothing for two or three days, nor meat for as many months.

  • Those of us who had leisure repaired at once to the convent, and from there the sight that followed was worth waiting all these many months to see.

  • About a quarter of a mile from town the guns unlimbered, and we could not help feeling satisfaction at watching the shells exploding in the laager--that laager we had watched for so many months, and had never been able to touch.

  • Guns--a superiority of guns--guns and more guns, were the solution of the difficult problem which had faced the Germans for so many months past.

  • Fighting in this terrain had been confined for many months to trench-raiding operations.

  • There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both ways; many ages; many birds; many cells; many centuries; many copies; many days; many dialects; many distinct; many hours; many individuals; many lives; many minds; many names; many readers; many regions; many servants; many ships; many subjects; many things; many tribes; many votes; many writers; many young; not good; protectively coloured