Example sentences of "weeks [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two weeks I think . ’ |
| 2 | Some subjects , I 'd learned during the weeks I followed Oscar Wilde , were better left only as implications . |
| 3 | ‘ I joined the refinery straight from university , never having been anywhere near the place before , and within ten weeks I was actually in charge of my own shift . |
| 4 | For three weeks I had nothing to do and I sat down and decided — I have recorded all these pieces before — to see if there was not something more behind the music . |
| 5 | Over the past three weeks I have conducted my own scientific poll among the taxi drivers who have taken me to and from Conservative Central Office each day . |
| 6 | For weeks I would pull slivers of skin like rice-paper from the top of my head and my ears . ) |
| 7 | And all that in one week , it must have been one of Madame 's special amateur talent weeks I suppose . |
| 8 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 9 | Every few weeks I would get one or two days off duty to catch the ferry to Nanaimo and motor down the scenic Malahat Drive to Victoria . |
| 10 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 11 | And for a few weeks I was happy . |
| 12 | Within three weeks I was again as fit as Carl 's fiddle . |
| 13 | ‘ In two weeks I shall be taking you and Corrie Palmer on the train to London . |
| 14 | After two weeks I felt better in myself and I had lost several pounds . |
| 15 | But some weeks I would take eight every day and feel awful all the time . ’ |
| 16 | All right , just for these last few weeks I 'll enjoy my obsession . |
| 17 | Within weeks I was paying 25 per cent commission . |
| 18 | For two weeks I tied grapes in a Concord vineyard for seven cents a vine . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , ‘ in those three weeks I got closer to him than anybody . |
| 20 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
| 21 | ( 17 November 1988 ) During subsequent weeks I gave many interviews to journalists to correct their inaccurate accounts . |
| 22 | For four weeks I let it lie on my desk , unwilling to take the final step . |
| 23 | Some weeks I earn nothing . ’ |
| 24 | , writes : TWICE in recent weeks I have heard of a character which sounds like Notre Dames and they say he was played in a film by Orson Welles . |
| 25 | Twice in recent weeks I have asked John Bryan if he is having an affair with Fergie . |
| 26 | And by the end of the two weeks I was just slapping paint here , there and everywhere and I painted over all the locks and things like that , because I did n't really care too much about it . |
| 27 | Every day after the first two weeks I would look anxiously up and down the road , hoping to see their car . |
| 28 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I once said that the reason we went to America was to make money , but over the last six weeks I 've really changed my mind totally . |
| 30 | After 5 weeks I had a small nitrite reading and there was no trace of ammonia . |