Example sentences of "[verb] a few week " in BNC.
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| 1 | things are looking clearer now than they did you know a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 3 | The sun is setting now , midnight sun ending a few weeks before , but it only disappears for an hour and even then it leaves behind its mark of golden twilight . |
| 4 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 5 | I raced against Cameron Sharp a number of times and beat him , so it was galling to find a few weeks later that he was racing Carl Lewis on the Continent . |
| 6 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 7 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
| 8 | Could you wait a few weeks until I 'm sure ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 10 | It is now the moose-hunting season — not a safe time to be creeping through the woods on a wild wolf chase , and so unless someone shoots her , Ylva has a few weeks grace . |
| 11 | She had her blood test a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | The late and much missed Fred Rival By the way I saw Mercy at the horse of the year show a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | WITH the Interim results a few weeks behind us , here are some of the interpretations of the City journalist . |
| 14 | Daren Fifield is our first new champ … we met up with him in training a few weeks ago … the boy was a knockout … |
| 15 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 16 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ When the draw for the quarter-final was made a few weeks ago , I was delighted at being paired with Derry City ’ he declared . |
| 18 | The media would still be able to cover current stories but within a longer-term , in-depth perspective so that Ethiopia or the Lebanon , Westland or nuclear disarmament do not simply occupy a few weeks ' worth of front page/main bulletin coverage per year . |
| 19 | But I mean I was thinking like as well cos like we did taxes like a few weeks ago did n't we , and the tax that the government get off that race , I mean seventy five million on the whole race , |
| 20 | The boy would spend a few weeks at a time with his father and when Sheila one day came to collect Scott , she mentioned that she felt she might well marry again . |
| 21 | During any year most staff members of the Institute will spend a few weeks , if not two or three months , in erm some developing country , or perhaps several , and of course we 're also heavily involved in international agencies . |
| 22 | Arrange to visit after the programme has had a few weeks to run . |
| 23 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sites at Ballyhannon have caused the greatest furore , with five acres being sold a few weeks ago for £250,000 . |
| 26 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 27 | But jobs were hard to find and he decided not to resign then but to wait a few weeks until he found another job . |
| 28 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 29 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |