Example sentences of "only a [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 2 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 3 | DR Gregor Gysi , East Germany 's new Communist party ( SED ) chairman , was shunned as a dangerous idealist reformer by the country 's discredited leaders only a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | Soft cuttings may root after only a few weeks , so pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves or white roots at the base of containers . |
| 5 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 6 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 7 | Only a few weeks ago I was in such a fog , I would n't have been able to write any of this . |
| 8 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 9 | Only a few weeks earlier , there had been serious disturbances in the Tirgu-Mureş area of Transylvania with fighting between rival groups of Romanian and Hungarian nationalists . |
| 10 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 11 | ‘ These figures are only a few weeks old . |
| 12 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 13 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
| 14 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 15 | Only a few weeks before , he had said in response to a publicity interviewers ' assertion that his father , John , had abandoned the family when he was born : ‘ My father and mother separated when I was a baby . |
| 16 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 17 | Only a few weeks after the gloriously happy wedding day , we learned that Michael had cancer in his spine , and that immediate surgery was necessary . |
| 18 | Moorcroft and Coleman were appointed joint professors after an interregnum of seven months , but only a few weeks later , on 4 April , Moorcroft resigned . |
| 19 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |
| 20 | The spores apparently can live only a few weeks at most in the environment ; infections have been induced experimentally by contact with spores from the insect 's surroundings , but this is probably a minor source of infection in nature . |
| 21 | Above Angela found the 17th-century four-poster bed while on a foray in the Welsh borders 18 years ago , and came upon the crewel-work hangings only a few weeks later in Hastings . |
| 22 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 23 | Only a few weeks ago we were trotting the globe with Wim Wenders ' Until the End of the World and Volker Schlöndorff 's Voyager , or rolling along transcontinental rails with Lars Von Trier 's Europa . |
| 24 | A man who may be described as a little eccentric , he suffers from angina , and only a few weeks previously had taken ill with an attack while on holiday in Majorca . |
| 25 | For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases . |
| 26 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 27 | ‘ He is sick and I can understand that , ’ said Keegan , who only a few weeks ago described Quinn as ‘ the best finisher in football ’ . |
| 28 | Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al . |
| 29 | Only a few weeks after the election , the Tory Mr Grist was appointed chairman of the South Glamorgan District Health Authority ( £19,285 a year for a three-day week ) . |
| 30 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |