Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final weeks of the Reagan administration , State Department plans for a ‘ surgical strike ’ against General Noriega were scotched by the Pentagon , which estimated that any use of US troops would cause several hundred military and civilian deaths . |
| 2 | But in the final weeks she began to fall , and I organized a home help and district nurse . |
| 3 | But one issue that can be expected to divide the parties in the final weeks is whether the controversial Franklin dam in Tasmania should go ahead . |
| 4 | ALTAN 'S LAST record , ‘ The Red Crow ’ , arrived in the final weeks of 1990 , a season when the huge stars normally hog all the attention and life is quiet in the Bush League of humble folkie bands . |
| 5 | It is not hard to imagine Nietzsche adding passages of this modest length in the final weeks , especially if he had continued to work on the " whole last part of the book during the summer ; any late additions would then have been based on that work . |
| 6 | They will want to know why the Government have decided to shove the Bill through in the final weeks of this Parliament . |
| 7 | Allegations that some Sandinistas had embezzled state property in the final weeks in power [ see also p. 38282 ] had led to expectations , subsequently unrealized , that a purge of the leadership would be demanded . |
| 8 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ He was definitely our best player in the final weeks of the season and even then he was carrying an injury . |
| 10 | But in the final weeks of preparation Steve , and his co-driver Graham Robbins , from Staindrop , realised they would struggle to raise enough sponsorship . |
| 11 | Moulton was appointed to command the forces in the Downs , and was the most senior serving officer in the critical weeks that followed , which saw the execution of the king and the establishment of the Commonwealth . |
| 12 | Especially in the early weeks of the diet , eating habits are very similar to the old ways . |
| 13 | A headline in the early weeks of 1991 referred to a 20% failure rate in reading skills ; an alternative , and preferable , line would have been an 80% success rate and a reminder of the conclusion of the Warnock Committee that , at any one time , 18% of the school population has special educational needs . |
| 14 | PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks . |
| 15 | Even in the early weeks it may increase the risk of a miscarriage . |
| 16 | In the early weeks of 1979 , ports were blockaded , the dead left unburied , rubbish piled high in the streets . |
| 17 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 18 | Most colleges will allow students to change their subject choices in the early weeks of an academic session . |
| 19 | Aside from the Children 's Department , the Design Department , in the early weeks , were enraged by us ; not the Designers themselves , who were absolutely terrific to us , but the people who ran it who were often extremely unhelpful . |
| 20 | The non-strikers , at the other extreme , comprising the two fields ( Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire-South Derbyshire-Warwickshire ) which had less than 15 per cent on strike in the early weeks of the dispute , and less than 5 per cent when it was six months old . |
| 21 | A handsome little fellow and filled with mischief as boys should be ; no doubt this was Beth 's son , and , taking into account the years between , no doubt begot in the early weeks of Beth 's marriage . |
| 22 | In the early weeks after I had him I suffered from postnatal depression . |
| 23 | The Abortion Pill is best used in the early weeks of a pregnancy — certainly in the first three months , although in some cases it can be used later . |
| 24 | Your doctor or midwife may also check your breasts and abdomen , though the womb is still hidden in the pelvis in the early weeks and may not be felt . |
| 25 | In the early weeks of the timetable , delays were legion and Class 150 Centros appeared frequently . |
| 26 | Attacks on the Beira corridor pipeline to Zimbabwe were stepped up in the early weeks of 1990 . |
| 27 | While Sedgwick had seen some encouraging new business gains in the early weeks of this year , ‘ our overall view for 1993 remains cautious ’ . |
| 28 | In the remaining weeks he refined the calibration of the detector by exposing it to beams of neutrons of known energy , produced by a van de Graaff accelerator . |
| 29 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 30 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |