Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] few weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
2 | There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special . |
3 | Schools , temples and churches have been hit too many times in the past few weeks to be the victims of mistakes . |
4 | The political reporters on all stations have paid tribute to the outstanding contribution made by my right hon. Friend , and the way in which he trumped the sporting aphorisms of the Prime Minister , used in the orchestrated triumph that we have had to live through in the past few weeks from a Government rocked on their heels by the assault from the Opposition today . |
5 | ‘ All the money that Sheikh Osman has used in the past few weeks in his war against the Copts is money that you have given him . ’ |
6 | When the Liberation came , the French dealt with the open collaborators in a brutal few weeks of epuration — a purge in which some innocents suffered . |