Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] few weeks [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 2 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |
| 3 | Over the past few weeks she had come to the conclusion that the person she would most like to share her home was quiet , devoted Jenny . |
| 4 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 5 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 6 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 7 | erm from the evidence we 've looked at over the past few weeks you know I would say that |
| 8 | well you know over the last few weeks we know that er |
| 9 | Over the next few weeks they 're releasing ten of thousands of tiny elvers in Thames tributaries like the River Windrush in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | The raid netted him £500 million and over the next few weeks he made his strategy clear . |
| 11 | Over the next few weeks there will be other highly-regarded Scottish companies showing why they have that reputation — for instance , the Bank of Scotland and Scottish & Newcastle , to name but two . |
| 12 | Over the next few weeks it will slowly grow itself a new set of entrails . |