Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Use the remaining few weeks to say your goodbyes and to find another job , ’ he had said . |
| 2 | Two more recent developments have been home blood glucose monitoring and the glycosylated haemoglobin ( HbA 1 ) or fructosamine — indicators of the integrated blood glucose level over the preceding few weeks . |
| 3 | But when no announcements of conclusive victory emerged in the following few weeks , people began — as was reported towards the end of October — to express their impatience that the struggle for Stalingrad was taking too long and costing too many lives . |
| 4 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 5 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 6 | The General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) is a 30-item psychiatric screening instrument which collects data about symptoms in the previous few weeks . |
| 7 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 9 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 10 | Although he had felt his senses were ‘ charred ’ , he wrote some of his greatest poems , such as ‘ Spring Offensive ’ , during the final few weeks of his life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Like , I 'm sure that child 's seen enough policemen in the past few weeks , you do n't know what goes through kids ' minds . |
| 18 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 19 | Schools , temples and churches have been hit too many times in the past few weeks to be the victims of mistakes . |
| 20 | Pressure from the people , and from the French government , has in the past few weeks nudged some neighbouring West African dictatorships the same way . |
| 21 | The administration should be the champion of the IFC , not , as during the past few weeks , its worst enemy . |
| 22 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 23 | Over the past few weeks , he 'd detected a fiendish intelligence in the machine whose sense of humour he empathised with . |
| 24 | The sale , to be announced within days , will be the Scottish group 's second deal in the past few weeks . |
| 25 | Following the pattern of local elections in France and Germany in the past few weeks , Italians have delivered a vote of no confidence in the parties that have governed since the war , notably the Christian Democrats . |
| 26 | Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines . |
| 27 | ONE important women 's issue has gone unnoticed in the past few weeks — the hemline question . |
| 28 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |
| 29 | WITH all the generation of hot air in the past few weeks , one might ask what effect this will have on the ozone layer ? |
| 30 | Neither can the fact that the bagpipes of the various regimental associations and lobby groups were remarkably silent over the past few weeks . |