Example sentences of "[prep] [art] past few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 2 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 3 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 5 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |
| 6 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 7 | A friend of Gina 's , Julie O'Dea , was in charge of the tickets ; for the past few weeks , her flat had been a temporary box-office and she was running a tight ship ; all committee members who took tickets were responsible for the money they owed . |
| 8 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 9 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 10 | He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks . |
| 11 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 12 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 13 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 14 | The administration should be the champion of the IFC , not , as during the past few weeks , its worst enemy . |
| 15 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 16 | ‘ Before I return to London , I 'd like to propose a strategy , should Elinor ever again be ill , to prevent the problems that Buzz has experienced during the past few weeks . ’ |
| 17 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 18 | On behalf of the 400 men from Sherwood who work at Gedling , I thank my hon. Friend for his endless time and effort , not only during the past few weeks but over years , to keep that colliery open . |
| 19 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 20 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 21 | Reassurance , warmth , sanity after the craziness and sadness of the past few weeks . |
| 22 | The events of the past few weeks show that time has long gone . |
| 23 | The pattern of AIDS research is also likely to be profoundly shaped by the events of the past few weeks , but more importantly by the articles by Fauci and Haase and their colleagues than by the preliminary report of the Anglo-French study . |
| 24 | She in no way blamed her dear little house for the terrifying events of the past few weeks . |
| 25 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 26 | Such a decision would be complementary to the steps already taken by the Chief Constable following the sectarian killings of the past few weeks . |
| 27 | She threaded her hands through his hair and kissed him back , and suddenly all the pent-up emotion of the past few weeks rushed up to engulf her . |
| 28 | In the past few weeks , some 30,000 East Germans have expressed their lack of faith in the GDR 's future by abandoning their homes and , often , their relatives for the freedom of the West . |
| 29 | The suggestion is he has topped up his stake in the past few weeks when Grand Met 's shares have been weak , falling from 658p . |
| 30 | About 1,500 East Germans who managed to reach Bonn 's embassy in Warsaw in the past few weeks have been sent to the West in two special trains . |