Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] weeks " in BNC.

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1 West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it .
2 Tests at very high temperatures need be , and should be , continued for only a short period , i.e. , for days or a few weeks rather than months .
3 In an effore to pick a premium FFL squad , could someone send me the current ( or a few weeks old league table that was published recently ) as I seem to have got rid of it , and todays paper does n't have one in
4 Er , but I I think actually that the nineteen weeks er in June re is largely caused of er some clearing out of cupboards on the part of Jill , prior to her maternity leave .
5 the clearing up , they always gave a hand , but even so , they , they did n't realise that the three weeks before hand
6 It did n't take much to get him back into proper work ; the pleasant surprise was that the three weeks holiday had done him a lot of good .
7 And harder than the first weeks are the first days .
8 Though I had been in Casualty longer than the three weeks Sister had talked of on my first morning , and by Cas. rules was temporarily senior to Daisy Yates , it was Daisy who was sent to join the Accident Nursing Team .
9 It will take more than the three weeks to reveal the confusion that abounds , but we shall do our best .
10 What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide .
11 The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales .
12 He smiled directly at her and she smiled back to hide her slight embarrassment at the sexuality in the comment , knowing that a few weeks earlier she would have blushed at it .
13 It 's doubtful , however , that a few weeks delay in its schedule will diminish its impact .
14 The talk now , based on suggestions from Microsoft Corp , is that Windows NT wo n't be delivered before August : it 's doubtful , however , that a few weeks delay in its schedule will diminish its impact very much — NT is exerting enormous pressure on the industry as it is .
15 I had certainly learned from my talk with Sir Horace Evans of the nature and seriousness of Eden 's malady ; but the great doctor had seemed hopeful in November that a few weeks ’ rest , followed by the normal holiday at Christmas , would be sufficient .
16 Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain .
17 The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks .
18 Although this is a fair wage , it is n't going to sustain a rock ‘ n ’ roll superstar lifestyle for longer than a few weeks , so it is only by sensible use of budgets that the real size of the advances can be put in context .
19 If there is a need for screening , it is in identifying the types of congenital malformations , such as anencephalus , which will not permit the child to live for more than a few weeks .
20 No-one stayed longer than a few weeks .
21 First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space .
22 as his friends used to call him ) was born prematurely and was not expected to live more than a few weeks ; it was only due to his mother 's great love for her child that he did survive .
23 Often in trouble with the police , he was unable to keep any job for more than a few weeks .
24 Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me .
25 ‘ Not best known for their reliability , mind , travelling about the country , never being in one place for more than a few weeks , got to be careful there . ’
26 Even at the seven year mark there would be very little expectation of more than a few weeks on parole licence in the community , instead of prison .
27 Indeed , until he was summoned home from King 's College , Cambridge , in 1698 , after the death of his elder brother , Walpole had rarely spent more than a few weeks at his Norfolk home in any year since he was 6.17 Not all families , however , sent their children away from home so early , or for so long .
28 If you have any surplus seeds such as peas , beans , lupins — all nitrogen fixers — then sow them if the ground is going to be vacant for more than a few weeks .
29 No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical .
30 Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made .
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