Example sentences of "just a [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just a few weeks ago the man he found , Deputy Prime Minister Leszek Balcerowicz electrified the finance ministers of the developed world with a seven-page plan to ‘ transform the Polish economy into a market economy ’ . |
| 2 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 3 | Her mother died when Mary was eighteen , just a few weeks after she had married and moved away from home . |
| 4 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 5 | The completed portraits now hang in the Quaderia dell'Ospedale Maggiore , and can be seen on occasions , for just a few weeks every other year as a rule . |
| 6 | This is due to the fact that we are no longer told to add crushed rusks to our babies ' bottles at just a few weeks old . |
| 7 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 8 | just a few weeks before her death he had written fondly to her on a postcard from Florence ( where the Sadler 's Wells Ballet went for the Maggio Musicale festival ) that she ‘ would love it so . |
| 9 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 10 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 11 | Pretty girls moved through McIllvanney 's life at an astonishing rate , though the last , who had endured a record six months , had left just a few weeks before . |
| 12 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 13 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 14 | Just a few weeks ago Safet was re-united with his mother , wife , and the daughter he had never seen , Emina . |
| 15 | The accusers said she was wrong to leave Beatrice , then just a few weeks old , behind in England . |
| 16 | One thing which will prove very disconcerting for a young puppy is to be left on its own in kennels after being in a home for just a few weeks . |
| 17 | Emily drank the tea , suddenly aware of the incongruity of the situation : here she was , sitting in the kitchen like one of the servants , something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago . |
| 18 | In the event , this official reformation was both rapid and radical , but up until just a few weeks before Henry 's death it had by no means been inevitable . |
| 19 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 20 | remember that just a few weeks ago that you were de , almost denying that we 'd have to do this sort of thing ! |
| 21 | The Fnac has renewed its long-running offensive against the French system of r.p.m. on books — just a few weeks before the parliamentary elections which seem likely to spell defeat for France 's ruling Socialists , the party that brought in the Loi Lang to regulate book prices in 1981 . |
| 22 | as if to mock us , Howe 's remarks preceded the release of the South Korean hostage Do Chae Sung by just a few weeks and the liberation of two French hostages by just over a month . |
| 23 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 24 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
| 25 | First gas started flowing from the field early in November , just a few weeks on from the original target of October . |
| 26 | Just a few weeks before the examinations . |
| 27 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 28 | Just a few weeks ago she fell on a toy brick and sprained her foot badly ! |
| 29 | You 're a garden designer — a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago , if you remember ; I want a garden designed . ’ |
| 30 | He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks . |