Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] some weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Law Society has been negotiating the terms of franchise contracts with the Legal Aid Board for some weeks and although a number of matters remain to be resolved , the negotiations have been conducted in a positive manner . |
| 2 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 3 | USL has had Destiny , initially conceived for Intel Corp platforms , in beta test for some weeks and should start regular deliveries to its OEM customers in July . |
| 4 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |
| 5 | The minute young are born in a relatively premature state and wriggle their way into the pouch of the mother where they fasten on to a teat for some weeks to complete their development . |
| 6 | Even the relatively uncontroversial Points One and Two ( the Danubian Principalities and control of the mouth of the Danube ) occupied the negotiators ' attention for some weeks . |
| 7 | After a period of some weeks without treatment , the rash and any other manifestations of secondary syphilis will regress and the disease enters the early latent stage . |
| 8 | Checklists are not appropriate for people who do not have inti-mate knowledge of a child over a period of some weeks . |
| 9 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 10 | The incident provided excitement and argument for some weeks in Huaiwiri , and much work for Salah Muhammad , even though the girls of the first cohort were nearing the end of their course . |
| 11 | The fighting continued in the peninsula for some weeks , with Tehran radio announcing attacks by the ‘ army of monotheism ’ along the Fao/Umm Qasr and Fao/Basrah axes . |
| 12 | A crisis and wave of strikes had effectively paralysed the government for some weeks [ see p. 38583 ] . |
| 13 | Jésus Arkautz Arana ( also known as Josu Mondragón ) had been under surveillance for some weeks by the French police , who were hoping they might learn the whereabouts of ETA leader Francisco Múgika Garmendia . |
| 14 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 15 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 16 | Following ‘ detox ’ , most people can be helped as day attenders at a special centre but some benefit from getting right away from their old life by entering a residential unit for some weeks or months . |
| 17 | However , some in the Treasury are understood to have been recommending a base rate increase for some weeks on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence that the economy had cooled . |