Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sue , of Baguley , of Greater Manchester , said : ‘ Our engagement was called off eight weeks before the blast . |
| 2 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |
| 3 | Agassi 's promotion despite being sidelined for eight weeks with tendonitis of the right wrist was expected with the Wimbledon seeding committee keen to officially acknowledge their reigning champion . |
| 4 | Speakers from the City law firm Cameron Markby Hewitt addressed a packed house in the Institute 's library each Wednesday evening for eight weeks from January to March . |
| 5 | It 's claimed by many people that we live in a cycle where , if you like , we struggle to get through fifty weeks of the year to live for holidays recharge the batteries , then you go into it again . |
| 6 | When an outpatient exercise programme exists , patients can begin by about 5–6 weeks after the infarct . |
| 7 | As Mr Jones points out , losing a student for 12 weeks at a time is extremely disruptive to a small office and costly to the practice . |
| 8 | In ‘ Partnership ’ , again local authority-owned land was made available for private development , but the new dwellings were reserved for 12 weeks at a stipulated price for purchasers falling into a restricted set of categories of which the most important were first-time buyers on the housing waiting list and households from slum-cleared areas . |
| 9 | Each order is your pension entitlement for one week and is valid for 12 weeks after the date shown on the voucher . |
| 10 | We were driven back to our home for 2 weeks by my uncle . |
| 11 | is still enjoying her Glasgow life-style & loves her job … she 's going to Crete for 2 weeks in Oct. — we are going to the U.S.A. … to Oregon & Seattle from 12 th Oct. … to 2 nd Nov. … to see s brother & wife & family . |
| 12 | Bemrose Corp pre-tax profit for 53 weeks to January 2 was £6.3m ( £5.1m ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Can he explain why that information was concealed for some weeks in one case ? |
| 16 | I stayed in Aldeburgh for some weeks in order to work with Ben whenever he had time . |
| 17 | However , the vandalism to the signalling system in the Birmingham area terminated all trains from the Cambrian and Chester/Shrewsbury areas at Wolverhampton for some weeks from Christmas . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The delegation continued to be the subject of a heated correspondence in the journals for some weeks after the event . |
| 20 | He had performed a most notable feat of navigation , of which anyone might be justifiably proud , in bringing the ship straight here after eleven weeks without sighting land . |
| 21 | Her sons were delighted to see her , and were as warm with her as they were distant with their wives , greeted , after eight weeks on the river , with diffident handshakes . |
| 22 | The results reported by Schneider and Robin indicate that aggression and tantrums decreased by 46 per cent and 54 per cent in two elementary school classrooms for the emotionally disturbed after eight weeks of training using the turtle technique . |
| 23 | ‘ Fortunately , after eight weeks of being back on his normal diet , his nutritional levels returned to normal and … |
| 24 | After some weeks of work in London gathering material from such places as the Canary Wharf Tower , Millbank Tower and the roof of the Economist Building , I eventually spotted a tower block across the Thames from the City which I thought must have an amazing vantage point . |
| 25 | Anyone can — and some people do — withdraw from a sale or purchase of property before exchange of contracts , but often after some weeks of wasted time . |
| 26 | After some weeks without Red Cross parcels , people began to arrive early at meals so that they could size up and take the largest of the scrupulously rationed helpings of potatoes , or the thickest of the apparently identical slices of bread . |
| 27 | After 12 weeks of using the Nicorette Patch , 41 per cent of smokers gave up compared with only 10 per cent who used a dummy patch . |
| 28 | We were one day from the summit , after six weeks of effort . |
| 29 | The clubs were all there , the James Braid putter a little rusty after six weeks of neglect . |
| 30 | After six weeks of silence , the chances of her one-time lover rethinking were zero . |