Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 2 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 3 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 4 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 5 | The steady increase in goods traffic which had taken place over the century can be demonstrated by the fact that during twenty-six weeks in 1847 the London and South-Western took in £38,906.19/11d as a result of their freight traffic . |
| 6 | But we we agree that after three weeks we should be should have completed it . |
| 7 | To add to their guilt at this lack of self-control , some books say that from 36 weeks , pregnant women are n't likely to gain any more weight and that from 38 weeks they may even lose some ! |
| 8 | To add to their guilt at this lack of self-control , some books say that from 36 weeks , pregnant women are n't likely to gain any more weight and that from 38 weeks they may even lose some ! |
| 9 | Approaches were then made to Brian Cubbon , the Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office responsible for criminal matters , with the result that within three weeks of publication the Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw announced to the House of Commons that because of continued unease about the case and after discussions with the Lord Chief Justice , he had ordered the release of Cooper and McMahon from prison . |
| 10 | It is a measure of the popularity of Gary Hutchinson that in eight weeks of fundraising , the appeal total has reached almost £5,000 . |
| 11 | I realized that in recent weeks Hyde had become bigger and stronger , both in body and character . |
| 12 | Has my hon. Friend noticed that in recent weeks , as the public have been able to assess our present policies and our future policy offerings , there has been a very sharp and noticeable increase in our opinion poll ratings ? |
| 13 | It is notable that in recent weeks distinguished former senior military commanders in the United Kingdom have questioned the need for the deployment of TASM . |
| 14 | In reply to his observations about security , I should point out that in recent weeks the Chief Constable indicated that four out of five terrorist attempts are prevented and interdicted as a result of the work of the security forces . |
| 15 | On July 26 Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that over previous weeks 73 Islamic " agitators " had been arrested in Dayrut . |
| 16 | The researchers found that at three weeks of age , 39% of the infants had been exposed to passive smoking from any source . |