Example sentences of "just a few weeks [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 2 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 3 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 4 | Her mother died when Mary was eighteen , just a few weeks after she had married and moved away from home . |
| 5 | ‘ Just a few weeks after I left the ship it was sunk by our own Typhoon fighters with the loss of 56 lives , ’ said Mr Connor , whose son , Paul , saw front-line action as a medic in the Gulf War . |
| 6 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |