Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [det] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the year he signed for the Oxford Products Ducati team but the link-up never quite worked out and Robert ended the association a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 4 | no fuss and I said ooh , I said I forgot about her being forty , I bought the card a few weeks ago |
| 5 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 6 | He 's only been with the club a few weeks . |
| 7 | and finally , our amblings from Kimblesworth cricket club a few weeks back erred in suggesting that Maltby , near Thornaby , dropped out of the National Village Cup because they thought Kimblesworth a bit far . |
| 8 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 10 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 11 | Erm I think we covered it briefly but erm covered it perhaps in slightly greater detail when when we had the preliminary interview a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing . |
| 13 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 14 | I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago . |
| 15 | Very shortly afterwards the young man was called up and sadly , he was killed in action a few weeks later . |
| 16 | ( Recent events have sadly shown that they were not radical enough ; 's regret a few weeks ago was that he was not still in charge . ) |
| 17 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 18 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 19 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 20 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |
| 21 | The scene a few weeks ago at St Barnabas ' Hall , Epsom , during the first mother 's and toddlers ' class organised by Jill Kelly and Janice Golding , at the request of the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 22 | Recordings of spontaneous interaction were made , first at home a few weeks before starting school , and then in the classroom after approximately six weeks at school . |
| 23 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 24 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 25 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 26 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 27 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 28 | One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 30 | Erm , I 'm slightly more concerned though about security in this building and in some of our other main buildings and it brought it home very starkly to me and I 'm sure to all members of the board when we arrived at our meeting a few weeks ago and spent er over two hours standing , we did n't stay out , more or less standing out in the street and . |