Example sentences of "some weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some weeks she would send a dozen poems , sometimes none . |
| 2 | Some weeks ago we sent a draft of a similar digest to a few Age Concern groups in order that we gain an appreciation of such a service and whether we should develop it further . |
| 3 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 4 | However , some in the Treasury are understood to have been recommending a base rate increase for some weeks on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence that the economy had cooled . |
| 5 | As the pound slid through the important benchmark of DM3 to close at DM2.9737 and lost ground against the dollar , most analysts agreed that the Chancellor would resist a further hike in interest rates at least for the duration of the Conservative Party conference , and possibly for some weeks to come . |
| 6 | ‘ Dr Runcie , to his eternal credit , remained his friend , though he had read the preface some weeks before and was certain in his own mind of its authorship . |
| 7 | For some weeks , it seemed that the joint US/NZ resolution on drift-netting would founder in the mire of State Department compromise , as successive US proposals were rejected as too weak by the New Zealanders . |
| 8 | Some weeks ago the secretary-general asked his staff to draw up plans to cover either an Iraqi withdrawal or an Iraqi defeat in the field . |
| 9 | SOME WEEKS AGO , I opened the paper and noticed a list of walks that were scheduled to take place in Britain . |
| 10 | Some weeks later , I receive a note of thanks along with an engraved beermug . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , some weeks later , the Sultan promised $10m . |
| 12 | The incident provided excitement and argument for some weeks in Huaiwiri , and much work for Salah Muhammad , even though the girls of the first cohort were nearing the end of their course . |
| 13 | Might be more some weeks than others , ’ suggested Sam . |
| 14 | Like most of the women questioned , she was quite willing to forgive Mr Ashdown for his extra-marital activities , revealed some weeks before the election campaign began . |
| 15 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 16 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 17 | The minute young are born in a relatively premature state and wriggle their way into the pouch of the mother where they fasten on to a teat for some weeks to complete their development . |
| 18 | Some weeks later , after the fall of Tunis and the Axis surrender in French North Africa , when he had time to reflect on his past and present condition , he began to write more regularly . |
| 19 | Some weeks previously we had discovered from Louise Hay 's booklet , The Mental Causes for Physical Illness that fibroids represented the nursing of a hurt from a partner . |
| 20 | There was the terrible Amelia Dyer affair , which filled the national papers for some weeks , and there was the unfortunate Trooper Woolridge who was hanged at Reading Gaol for killing his young wife . |
| 21 | Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago . |
| 22 | Now in the night its contents come back to me randomly , though it will be some weeks before , as a way of exorcism , I can make |
| 23 | It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection . |
| 24 | After a period of some weeks without treatment , the rash and any other manifestations of secondary syphilis will regress and the disease enters the early latent stage . |
| 25 | This allergic reaction explains why , after successful treatment of the infection , itching may continue for some weeks because of the dead remains of the mite persisting under the skin . |
| 26 | Some weeks after the appearance of the primary lesion , a secondary rash is seen , which is equivalent to that seen in secondary syphilis . |
| 27 | It will take some weeks now before I can contact my friend and ask him … ask for the information to be repeated . ’ |
| 28 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 29 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 30 | After some weeks without Red Cross parcels , people began to arrive early at meals so that they could size up and take the largest of the scrupulously rationed helpings of potatoes , or the thickest of the apparently identical slices of bread . |