Example sentences of "[conj] a few 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 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's doubtful , however , that a few weeks delay in its schedule will diminish its impact . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No-one stayed longer than a few weeks . |
| 15 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Often in trouble with the police , he was unable to keep any job for more than a few weeks . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made . |
| 25 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 26 | That same summer , the Club 's Professional Fred Rhodes , enjoyed an impressive three rounds in two days — 70 , 70 and 72 , and a few weeks earlier he grossed a 65 , simultaneously beating every best ball of his three playing partners who in best combination returned a 72 . |
| 27 | They were a captive audience for the beautiful satin and silk and a few weeks later their mothers would be complaining to Mr Smith that their weekly pound had not been received . |
| 28 | Cottle was interested and a few weeks later was invited to London where he was offered a job in the Foreign office , doing something , somewhere . |
| 29 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 30 | Green water can actually be beneficial to your pond fish and a few weeks in a thick green soup can improve your fish 's vitality and colour — but if you ca n't see the fish , there 's not a lot of point in keeping them . |