Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] weeks " in BNC.

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1 That was the gist of what the Air Force chief of staff said , thinking out loud a few weeks ago .
2 They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show .
3 I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more .
4 THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker .
5 DR Gregor Gysi , East Germany 's new Communist party ( SED ) chairman , was shunned as a dangerous idealist reformer by the country 's discredited leaders only a few weeks ago .
6 Soft cuttings may root after only a few weeks , so pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves or white roots at the base of containers .
7 It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away .
8 At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return .
9 Only a few weeks ago I was in such a fog , I would n't have been able to write any of this .
10 We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live .
11 Only a few weeks earlier , there had been serious disturbances in the Tirgu-Mureş area of Transylvania with fighting between rival groups of Romanian and Hungarian nationalists .
12 IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams .
13 ‘ These figures are only a few weeks old .
14 This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year .
15 Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed .
16 After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children .
17 Only a few weeks before , he had said in response to a publicity interviewers ' assertion that his father , John , had abandoned the family when he was born : ‘ My father and mother separated when I was a baby .
18 Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void .
19 Only a few weeks after the gloriously happy wedding day , we learned that Michael had cancer in his spine , and that immediate surgery was necessary .
20 Moorcroft and Coleman were appointed joint professors after an interregnum of seven months , but only a few weeks later , on 4 April , Moorcroft resigned .
21 Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease .
22 The spores apparently can live only a few weeks at most in the environment ; infections have been induced experimentally by contact with spores from the insect 's surroundings , but this is probably a minor source of infection in nature .
23 Above Angela found the 17th-century four-poster bed while on a foray in the Welsh borders 18 years ago , and came upon the crewel-work hangings only a few weeks later in Hastings .
24 You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before .
25 Only a few weeks ago we were trotting the globe with Wim Wenders ' Until the End of the World and Volker Schlöndorff 's Voyager , or rolling along transcontinental rails with Lars Von Trier 's Europa .
26 A man who may be described as a little eccentric , he suffers from angina , and only a few weeks previously had taken ill with an attack while on holiday in Majorca .
27 For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases .
28 He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose .
29 ‘ He is sick and I can understand that , ’ said Keegan , who only a few weeks ago described Quinn as ‘ the best finisher in football ’ .
30 Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al .
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