Example sentences of "a few weeks [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 2 | But , apart from a few foolhardy daisies confused by a mild winter , there was little in Shetland to indicate that spring was — officially — only a few weeks away . |
| 3 | WITH THE new season now only a few weeks away , clubs will be assessing how they can best update or improve their facilities . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's only a few weeks away now . |
| 5 | See you in a few weeks again . |
| 6 | have a few weeks well |
| 7 | Dr Spilsby thinks she will last a few weeks yet . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah but it 's a few weeks yet though . |
| 9 | A few weeks later he flew to Britain . |
| 10 | And yes , you 've guessed it — a few weeks later what should I discover among my mail but a letter : ‘ Dear Mr Ken Ward , where may I purchase an emergency … |
| 11 | A few weeks later , the Streatham area organiser phoned . |
| 12 | The managers refused to believe the word of a physicist who inspected the plant , and who was to die of radiation sickness a few weeks later . |
| 13 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 14 | A few weeks later , Mrs Wilson discovered for herself what she felt must have been the reason for the heart attack . |
| 15 | So I was not surprised when he rang me a few weeks later to say that Dorothy was in hospital . |
| 16 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 17 | Then there were the obituaries for Gottwald a few weeks later . |
| 18 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 19 | A few weeks later I did exactly that . |
| 20 | He received an immediate apology , but a few weeks later the picture turned up again — this time accompanying a feature on prostitution in Paris . |
| 21 | A few weeks later , FoE obtained a government document showing that some water supplies would now be in breach of the Drinking Water Directive until 31 December 2000 , and in some cases perhaps even longer . |
| 22 | A few weeks later , Arnold Grayson , the Commission 's research director , was before the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment . |
| 23 | You would be prudent not to pay deposits or any money in advance : many people have paid deposits to companies which have gone bankrupt a few weeks later . |
| 24 | A few weeks later she fell ill with the ovarian cyst , but the picture was now Lycopodium . |
| 25 | The overdrive was fined in June 1986 and the leak began to show a few weeks later on a routine service . |
| 26 | The trouble started again a few weeks later and yet another overdrive was fitted , this one with double oil Deals , but the oil leak was Still there . |
| 27 | ‘ Savage wolves ’ was how Franjieh would describe the Palestinians a few weeks later . |
| 28 | A few weeks later , when the film was released , Nicholson 's nervous optimism was shattered by the severe cuts made in his role on film . |
| 29 | The back staircase collapsed a few weeks later . |
| 30 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |