Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] weeks " in BNC.
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1 | It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months . |
2 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
3 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
4 | Marsilid was tried as a treatment for depressed patients , and , given over a period of weeks rather than days , but it had disadvantages as well as advantages . |
5 | Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks . |
6 | Over a period of weeks the different teams meet to review and plan ahead . |
7 | But recent research shows that the ‘ constant ’ changes by a fraction of a per cent , both over a period of weeks and over several years . |
8 | Try reducing your use of salt slowly over a period of weeks and use flavouring substitutes like herbs , spices and lemon juice . |
9 | Alec said that for him the daily instruction from the word of God in one 's quiet time was the place where , over a period of weeks , we should receive guidance from God . |
10 | As conditions improved , the more hardy Koi were introduced , the rest following over a period of weeks . |
11 | Homoeopathic potencies are therefore quite different from conventional drugs which have to be administered daily , and possibly several times a day , over a period of weeks or longer . |
12 | There is a spontaneous gradual recovery over a period of weeks or months and the protein concentration of spinal fluid becomes elevated . |
13 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
14 | The fry are born with large black eyes , but these steadily reduce in size over a period of weeks until they are covered with a cartilaginous sheath . |
15 | Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season . |
16 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
17 | The practical effect of this wording is that for a claim to be covered the casualty must be reasonably attributable to an identifiable accident the source of which is external to the craft — thus the craft filling with water on its moorings over a period of weeks and then foundering would not be covered . |
18 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
19 | Amid protest marches and demonstrations , over a period of weeks some two dozen lorries carrying live animal imports were held up on French roads and in a few cases the animals were slaughtered or burned alive . |
20 | If the investigation is a sustained piece of work extending over a period of weeks , a diary work file or log book of activities should be maintained . |
21 | It ran for four separate days over a period of weeks , followed by an exam when all managed to pass . |
22 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
23 | I ca n't tell you how exhausted we all were , running around practically 24 hours a day for weeks , making sure their day would be as perfect as possible . |
24 | The announcement represented a compromise after weeks of tension between the government and the parliamentary opposition . |
25 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |
26 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
27 | Now my twenty first birthday I 'd never had a copper for weeks , w e had n't got anything , anything at all , and all we got really was the old fashioned dog biscuits . |
28 | It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires . |
29 | Although he had n't sold a book in weeks he would happily sit at the counter engrossed in his beloved William Blake until it was time to turn the sign on the front door from ‘ Open ’ to ‘ Closed ’ . |
30 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |