Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] weeks [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After waiting for eight weeks the guitar finally arrived . |
| 2 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 3 | ‘ You see , I need to make at least fifty pounds a week for thirty-six weeks a year . ’ |
| 4 | But after six weeks the colour came back in the same region . |
| 5 | Previously , after six weeks the students would teach one ( heavily prepared ) lesson ; now , in theory , at least , they could be expected to take responsibility for a class for six or seven weeks . |
| 6 | After six weeks the rabbit was bled for 10 ml . |
| 7 | After six weeks the stricture was further dilated with two endoprostheses . |
| 8 | After three weeks the Ph had dropped to 6.2 , ideal for my purposes . |
| 9 | When the operation is over and after nine weeks the plaster comes off , you expect to see a wasted thin limb . |
| 10 | After nine weeks the Germans suppressed the uprising , punishing the city by virtually destroying it . |
| 11 | After 42 weeks the rabbit started to produce antibodies against PT-gliadin . |
| 12 | After five weeks the Austrian federal troops , which numbered as many as 7,500 at their peak , left the border area in early August . |
| 13 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 14 | After four weeks the trainee returns for formal basic training of a further eight days . |
| 15 | Immediate post-operative speech was limited to " yes ' and " no " but after two weeks the patient was able to say " no , I do n't want any " and " put me back to bed " . |
| 16 | After two weeks the dosage of prednisolone was gradually reduced . |
| 17 | After two weeks the general health of the patient improved , and her blood values were : haemoglobin 145 g/L , mean corpuscular volume 88 m , white blood cells 4.510/L ( 64% neutrophils , 1% basophil , 3% eosinophils , 32% lymphocytes ) , and platelets 23910/L . |
| 18 | After being off work ( I worked as a driving instructor and sitting was the worst position to be in ) for six weeks the pain was no better , if anything it was worse . |
| 19 | Nomura was further ordered on Oct. 8 to close more than 79 of its 153 domestic branches for a month , and to close for six weeks the six branches most heavily involved in the Tokyu incident . |
| 20 | By the age of four weeks the play-fighting becomes more elaborate , with chasing , pouncing , clasping with the front legs and vigorous kicking with the hind legs . |
| 21 | Everybody used to come to New York City for three weeks a year and go to all the galleries . |
| 22 | For three weeks the Price Is Right celebrity was in a deep coma at Bristol 's Frenchay Hospital . |
| 23 | For three weeks the fortified monastery had been their prison . |
| 24 | If Lord 's has any thoughts for the anxiety felt by the families at the thought of England 's players running a gauntlet of violence for 11 weeks the tour should be called of . |
| 25 | WHY do TV companies feed us recycled rubbish for 50 weeks a year then put on all the good programmes at Christmas when we have no time to watch the box ? |
| 26 | In preceding weeks a seven-member committee had been formed to prepare for the privatization of 76 state companies , in which foreign investors would be able to acquire minority holdings . |
| 27 | In three weeks a man earns £60 , £50 and £58 . |
| 28 | February 1689 and within three weeks a Declaration of Rights denounced the illegalities of the previous reign . |
| 29 | After the failed June 1953 uprising , crushed by Soviet tanks , ‘ people shut their eyes and looked away ’ , said Heiko , a 19-year-old factory worker , after a packed service in the Gethsemane church , in recent weeks a centre of opposition . |
| 30 | The Park Row machine is one of several opened in recent weeks a various locations throughout Britain including the Rangers shop in Edmonston Drive , Glasgow , and the Scotmid supermarket in Old Edinburgh Road , Uddingston . |