Example sentences of "[noun] a few weeks later " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 2 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 3 | Very shortly afterwards the young man was called up and sadly , he was killed in action a few weeks later . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |
| 5 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 6 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 7 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 8 | One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Savage wolves ’ was how Franjieh would describe the Palestinians a few weeks later . |
| 10 | Merleau-Ponty , who met Nizan a few weeks later at Laurent Casanova 's villa in Porto , recalls that Nizan seemed resigned to the inevitability of war , but still confident in the belief that a tripartite alliance between France , Great Britain and the USSR was a necessary and inevitable prerequisite to the defeat of fascism . |
| 11 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 12 | He went on the course a few weeks later , two days in a hotel conference room which smelt of stale cigar smoke and small successes . |
| 13 | On a hot summer afternoon a few weeks later , Caroline trooped wearily home from work and opened her postbox to find a long white envelope bearing the logo of the Davis School of Design . |
| 14 | One damp , cold , windy night a few weeks later , Fagin put on his heavy coat and , with the collar pulled up high to hide his face , left his home . |
| 15 | When the exorcism was carried out , and Gittel and her husband left the district a few weeks later , I dropped into a kind of daze . |
| 16 | ‘ You have an immense output , ’ Willoughby said severely to Emily a few weeks later , leaning over her desk as if he were a judge himself . |
| 17 | Though the Welsh version continues to go out on the day it is filmed , the new audience will be regaled with story lines familiar to the Welsh audience a few weeks later . |
| 18 | Pool had the last laugh in the FA Cup a few weeks later . |
| 19 | Then there were the obituaries for Gottwald a few weeks later . |
| 20 | At the inevitable inquest a few weeks later which , mercifully , thanks to Edna 's and Bert 's discretion , the appalling weather and her own reclusive way of life , was held almost in private , she sat in the court , her head bowed , her once handsome face lined and drawn . |
| 21 | He had already invited his new young friend to travel to Stowey a few weeks later , and when they parted after six miles , Hazlitt was possessed by a single thought : ‘ I was to visit Coleridge in the spring . ’ |
| 22 | Hope and I continued our conversation a few weeks later , this time at his terraced house in Stoke Newington . |
| 23 | The managers refused to believe the word of a physicist who inspected the plant , and who was to die of radiation sickness a few weeks later . |