A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

In a few months the Duke was to be the center of a controversy of some significance on the touchy question of the Protestant Succession.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

So successful has been this program, worked out by white and Negro civic leaders, that further extensions are expected in the next few months.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.

Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: `` The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom ''!!

probably it is correct to think of it as a matter of a well-grooved, stereotyped mode of expression -- and no, or but a few, other communicational grooves, as yet -- being there, available for the patient's use, as newly-emerging emotions and ideas well up in him over the course of months.

One of the most intriguing questions is whether the recent departures of the Federal Reserve authorities from confining their open market operations to Treasury bills will spread into longer-term Government securities in the next few months.

It might be well to point out, however, some of the newer developments that have taken place within the past few months which might have a bearing on the future of the various foamed plastics involved.

Straightening one tooth that has come in wrong may take only a few months.

For a few giddy months that coincided with one of Moscow's smiling moods, he was the sensation of Washington.

First, the general stock market has been boiling upward for the last few months, driving stocks of all kinds up.

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

Originally it was only available during a few months of the year, but it is now grown in greenhouses and is available year-round.

Within a few months, the right to exercise the regency over his infant son, John V Palaiologos, and the position of Andronikos'all-powerful chief minister and friend John Kantakouzenos led to the outbreak of a destructive seven-year civil war.

Early in 1717 Selkirk returned to Lower Largo but stayed only a few months.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

Within a few months, Emily unable to adapt to life at school, was physically ill from homesickness.

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

" In January, Jobs announced that they would instead be supporting IBM's Token Ring, which he expected to come out in a " few months ".

Within a few months, some settlers died of famine and disease.

A few days beforehand Oxford at his house at Hackney had entertained the Earl of Lincoln, a nobleman known for erratic and violent behaviour similar to his host's.

It is sometimes suggested that a few weeks beforehand Emily Davison and other suffragettes were ' practising ' grabbing horses in the park near her mother's house in Morpeth ; and that they drew straws to decide who should be the one to go to Epsom.

The hall was scheduled to be completed by Christmas Day 1870 and the Queen visited a few days beforehand to inspect.

The plan was dropped because Hitler's schedule was too irregular and unpredictable: stations were only informed of his arrival a few minutes beforehand.

The team does not speak beforehand to the players they select ( some of whom are not even known as basketball players, such as soccer stars Lionel Messi and Tim Howard ), and only a few of the selected players eventually agree to join the Globetrotters.

Referring to the comparison drawn to shredded books in the introduction: while for mapping assemblies one would have a very similar book as template ( perhaps with the names of the main characters and a few locations changed ), the de-novo assemblies are more hardcore in a sense as one would not know beforehand whether this would become a science book, or a novel, or a catalogue etc.

The budget contained few surprises: most major initiatives had been announced long beforehand.

They were reburied in his native Ponce, along with his widow Nilda who died a few weeks beforehand.

However, the circumstances of Kealy's death suggest that this is somewhat fanciful as he was seen by other service personnel undergoing the same SAS endurance exercise only a few hours beforehand in deteriorating weather conditions, was in fact found alive ( but in poor condition ) by a two-man search party — one of whom stayed with him and attempted to keep him warm.

One of Droopy's most famous and surprising traits is his incredible strength, given his diminutive stature and unassuming looks and personality, but it would usually be reserved for when he was upset ( with a few rare exceptions, where he would very easily move his adversary beforehand, but without harming him ), and then he would monotone, " You know what?

The performance itself would be the first formal concert played by Thayil since the demise of Soundgarden a few years beforehand, and only the second time Biafra had played music in a planned live setting since the Dead Kennedys split in 1986.

Since the short variety of joke is usually thought of beforehand, there are a few commonly used ones.

160 km / h services began on 15 October 2006, although a few selected services ran to slightly faster schedules for a week or so beforehand.

Secrecy had been strictly maintained ; only a few Lt. Colonels learned about the plan beforehand on a need to know basis.

A founding conference of the Young Socialist Alliance was held in April 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, though local Young Socialist supporter groups had existed in several cities for a few years beforehand.

Pea Brook consists of a few homes and upon leaving, NY 97 returns to the two-lane woods road it was beforehand.

Pachakutik participated in the presidential elections of 1996 despite having only been formed a few months beforehand.

This was a moment for any of those with the privilege of the grande entrée to have a swift private word with the king, which would have been carefully rehearsed beforehand to express a request as deferentially but in as few words as possible.

Founded in Fall 2007 by Jack-O-Lantern editor-in-chief Fred Meyer, the Dartmouth Stand-Up Comedy Group received college recognition on February 13, 2008, after having existed unofficially for a few months beforehand, holding open mics at restaurants around campus.