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Example sentences for "several months"

  • The Senator's interest in the case had led him to make extensive inquiries into the antecedents of these parties, but he was unable to trace them further back than their arrival in New York, several months before.

  • Why, it is a very large sum in all, and it may be several months before I can repay you.

  • After a time, varying from a few days to several months, the young caterpillars or larvae make their appearance.

  • Hence they seem to be on the wing almost without cessation for several months together, and therefore need not have a special day set apart for them.

  • Their period of existence in this state varies from a few weeks to several months, and even, in some cases, to years.

  • Taken by itself the letter is evidence, that on the 13th of August, Shelley hoped to make a sojourn of several months in Switzerland.

  • I regretted to find, several months later, that the California House had been burned by the Rebels.

  • If "misery loves company," it was doubtless gratifying to Mr. Thompson to know of the capture of the library and correspondence of Jefferson Davis, several months later.

  • General Frost remained on his farm and took no part in the Rebellion until relieved from his parole, several months later.

  • A gradual alteration of the nutritive processes first occurs, until what might be called a scorbutic cachexia is established in a period varying from a few weeks to several months.

  • From the appearance of the jaundice up to the onset of severe symptoms the time has varied from two weeks to several months, but has rarely exceeded three months.

  • Several months may be occupied in an amount of atrophy distinct enough to be recognized by the narrowing of the area of hepatic dulness.

  • It may return a number of times every day, or sometimes not for several days, during a period of many weeks or several months.

  • The disease may last several hours or several months.

  • Well, could you give us an estimate, that is in terms of whether it was weeks or several months?

  • I would say, as we said before, several months.

  • I can give an estimate of several months.

  • Several months afterward, however, I was passing down Park Row, when my attention was attracted to a little girl playing a guitar and singing an Italian song in a plaintive, monotonous air.

  • Several months passed, and none of the hopes which Derues had inspired were realised; a loan was always on the point of being arranged, and regularly failed because of some unforeseen circumstance.

  • In any case, a march of several months through an unsettled country was sure to leave the traveler in a most forlorn and exhausted condition every way.

  • Here, for the first time in several months, they enjoyed the luxury of bread--a favor for which the suffering Mrs. Spalding was especially grateful.

  • I think his book kept him alive several months.

  • Several months before, in June, Sam decided he would go out into the world.

  • De Quille, returning from the East after an absence of several months, found his room and deskmate with the distinction of a new name and fame.

  • It generally, however, makes its first appearance when the child is a few weeks old, and sometimes not till after the lapse of several months.

  • It is an inflammation of the mouth, tongue and fauces, which sometimes comes on during pregnancy, several months or but a few days before the birth of the child.

  • Several months earlier he had trouble with her on account of her staying out late at night, and had threatened her.

  • So much attention would not have been paid to this gruesome tale had it not been repeated to various people during the course of several months.

  • After a few weeks' continuous instruction the ape perfectly well understood what was required of her, and up to the time when I left town, several months ago, she rarely made a mistake in handing me the exact number of straws that I named.

  • With regard to Panmixia, it occurs to me that very likely you have not seen all that I wrote upon it, as the three papers were scattered over several months in 'Nature.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "several months" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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