Example sentences of "[art] [det] weeks [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |
| 2 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 3 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 4 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 5 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 6 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 7 | They took the net down after a few weeks but kept it handy , you know . |
| 8 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 9 | In July , a few weeks before she died , Katherine started High Court proceedings against Mr Egan and his publishing house for breach of copyright . |
| 10 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 11 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 12 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 13 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 14 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 15 | Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in . |
| 16 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 17 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 18 | A few weeks before I could n't have found Madeira on a map — now what I saw made me vow to return every year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 21 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 22 | Oddly enough , a few weeks before this road was opened , a fine , informative film was shown on British television describing the lives of the Basque shepherding community of the Sainte-Engrâce valley . |
| 23 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 24 | A few weeks before he left Iran , the Shah had asked one of the most respected members of the opposition that he had crushed in the fifties to try to form a government . |
| 25 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 26 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |
| 27 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 28 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 29 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 30 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |