Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] few weeks " in BNC.

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1 He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment .
2 At the beginning of the year he signed for the Oxford Products Ducati team but the link-up never quite worked out and Robert ended the association a few weeks ago .
3 There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital …
4 no fuss and I said ooh , I said I forgot about her being forty , I bought the card a few weeks ago
5 And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it .
6 He 's only been with the club a few weeks .
7 and finally , our amblings from Kimblesworth cricket club a few weeks back erred in suggesting that Maltby , near Thornaby , dropped out of the National Village Cup because they thought Kimblesworth a bit far .
8 I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago .
9 Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years .
10 Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years .
11 Erm I think we covered it briefly but erm covered it perhaps in slightly greater detail when when we had the preliminary interview a few weeks ago .
12 Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing .
13 Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before .
14 I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago .
15 The man of the house told us that he had to repaint his boat every few weeks as the chemicals stripped it back to bare wood.And his wife complained of burns all up one arm from washing her clothes in contaminated water .
16 Very shortly afterwards the young man was called up and sadly , he was killed in action a few weeks later .
17 ( Recent events have sadly shown that they were not radical enough ; 's regret a few weeks ago was that he was not still in charge . )
18 And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor .
19 Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before .
20 Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ .
21 It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier .
22 The scene a few weeks ago at St Barnabas ' Hall , Epsom , during the first mother 's and toddlers ' class organised by Jill Kelly and Janice Golding , at the request of the National Childbirth Trust .
23 Recordings of spontaneous interaction were made , first at home a few weeks before starting school , and then in the classroom after approximately six weeks at school .
24 Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier .
25 When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at .
26 The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later .
27 I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything …
28 They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company .
29 One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’
30 My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer .
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