Example sentences of "for [art] [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 2 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 3 | Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them . |
| 4 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 5 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 6 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
| 7 | Just the two of us with nothing else to think about but each other for a few weeks . |
| 8 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 9 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 10 | For example , what happens when you go on holiday for a few weeks , or you are bedridden with influenza , or you change job or move house ? |
| 11 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |
| 12 | I was in Sydney for a few weeks , and had an affair with a broad . |
| 13 | In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks . |
| 14 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 15 | You do n't want a firm whose work of good , but who may leave you high and not-so-dry for a few weeks . |
| 16 | It was thought by the producers that the programme slipped out of the top ten ratings for a few weeks because of the squeamishness of some viewers , but this was probably just a seasonal fluctuation . |
| 17 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's only one day a week , Vic , for a few weeks . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks . |
| 20 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 21 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 22 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 23 | ‘ To me , it is just nice to get out of Leeds for a few weeks . |
| 24 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 25 | Lord John Russell was Foreign Secretary for a few weeks only in Aberdeen 's Coalition Government , when on 21st February , 1853 , he was replaced by George Villiers , fourth Earl of Clarendon ( 1800–70 ) who held the post until February 1858 , in both Aberdeen 's and Palmerston 's Governments . |
| 26 | In the snow of winter , for a few weeks , they need fodder . |
| 27 | For a few weeks each autumn , conkers was the game in vogue . |
| 28 | It helps if you both keep independent jealousy logs for a few weeks beforehand . |
| 29 | For a few weeks all went well , until three New Bradwell ex POWs , Ron Preston , Jack Henshaw and George Wood could not get a hire car due to petrol being rationed . |
| 30 | Liz had continued to live at home with her parents , but she was now thinking about going to stay with her brother and his wife for a few weeks . |