Example sentences of "[prep] a few week [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence . |
2 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
3 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
4 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
5 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
6 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
7 | A majority of Democrats , however , having accepted budget cuts of $7,000 million in 1991 , were unprepared to make another round of even deeper cuts within a few weeks of state elections . |
8 | It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection . |
9 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
10 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |