Example sentences of "[noun prp] a [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | , the PA at the fine art people took me to Perth Theatre one Friday a few weeks ago to see a stupendous , lively , robust performance of ‘ Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off ’ I could see it again , it was so good . |
| 2 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
| 3 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 5 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |
| 7 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 8 | The one that was on Jonathan Ross a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |
| 11 | But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death . |
| 12 | He said he had been aware of the consequences when he picked Mr Jackson a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | Merleau-Ponty , who met Nizan a few weeks later at Laurent Casanova 's villa in Porto , recalls that Nizan seemed resigned to the inevitability of war , but still confident in the belief that a tripartite alliance between France , Great Britain and the USSR was a necessary and inevitable prerequisite to the defeat of fascism . |
| 14 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 15 | Siouxsie Sioux , about ten years ago , adopting a pose very similar to that of P J Harvey a few weeks ago , only she was wearing a Greek fisherman 's hat |
| 16 | OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads . |
| 17 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 18 | Again un-named as yet , it has a provisional grading of E8 6c , and supersedes a pitch climbed by Grant Farquhar a few weeks previously , which finished up the top section of Lord of the Flies . |
| 19 | Mick Papp got more than he bargained for when he stopped at Strathford 's garage in East Kilbride a few weeks ago . |
| 20 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 21 | ‘ You have an immense output , ’ Willoughby said severely to Emily a few weeks later , leaning over her desk as if he were a judge himself . |
| 22 | IBM demonstrated OS/2 and OSF/1 running concurrently on a PS/2 at Comdex a few weeks back , using the multiple personality capabilities of OSF 's Mach-based microkernel technology . |
| 23 | I interviewed Mr Riverton in Helsinki a few weeks ago … ’ |
| 24 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 25 | Unfortunately living in Ireland I do n't see much of the team but I was lucky enough to be in Southampton a few weeks ago to see them beat Southampton about the head a little . |
| 26 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 27 | Last week Yamaguchi , 20 , added the women 's ice skating world title to the Olympic gold she won in France a few weeks earlier . |
| 28 | An overall winner and a runner-up were chosen from the many entries and their reviews were featured in TeleClub a few weeks ago . |
| 29 | I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype . |
| 30 | It 's interesting because I was in Nottingham a few weeks ago and actually on Nottingham market they sell a lot of goat meat |