Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] a few week " in BNC.

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1 Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus .
2 ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago .
3 We had planned this after a brief look into Llanberis a few weeks previously .
4 The pair were charged with illegal entry the charge used against Britons Paul Ride , who was arrested in the same area last June , and Martin Wainwright , who cycled into Iraq from Turkey a few weeks earlier .
5 I interviewed Mr Riverton in Helsinki a few weeks ago … ’
6 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 .
7 It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier .
8 OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads .
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