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

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1 China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu .
2 After a few weeks in Blackpool , Marjorie was overjoyed when sent to America to join the Lollipop Troupe for a year .
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 The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA .
5 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 .
6 No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer
7 ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) .
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