Example sentences of "[prep] some [num] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting on 1 September , the " Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union " was described as having been in existence for some nine weeks . |
| 2 | Bombardment of the inner forts followed , and for some three weeks attempts — desultory at best — were made by trawlers to sweep the first line of mines . |
| 3 | Geaga 's announcement came after some seven weeks of fighting in the Christian enclave between the LF and forces loyal to Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon [ see pp. 37264-65 ; 37331-32 ] . |
| 4 | John followed Richard after a lapse of some six weeks , to be succeeded in turn by Henry III after a vacancy of a week , and Edward I succeeded him after a four-day interval . |
| 5 | To be thus punished twice in a matter of some three weeks seemed grossly unjust . |
| 6 | The deeds to the farms will follow in some six weeks . ’ |