Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 2 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 3 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 4 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 5 | Dorning Town were quick to gain revenge for their defeat here a few weeks ago , by overcoming us 4-O . |
| 6 | A lot of the women whose benefit was cut off were back on our books again a few weeks later — which suggested either that their relationships had not really been like that of husband and wife , or that our intrusion had broken up what might have become a more lasting union . |
| 7 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 8 | Desi Grew had been in prison several times for terrorist offences , Martin McCoffey had left Dungannon Council only a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 10 | Desi Grew has been in jail several times for terrorist offences , and Martin McCoffey has left Dungannon Council just a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | Since he could not afford to keep her and the boy out of his meagre earnings he drifted away , leaving her to claim supplementary benefit again a few weeks later . |
| 12 | You 're a garden designer — a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago , if you remember ; I want a garden designed . ’ |
| 13 | It had been brought to the house by a friend only a few weeks earlier for shooting rabbits on the Blenheim estate . |
| 14 | He succeeded his brother as viscount on 14 December 1812 , but held the title only a few weeks before his own death . |
| 15 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ But 'er Gran 's only bin dead a few weeks . |
| 18 | Bear in mind that foot health has a very low rating on a " need to know " basis for a mother with a baby only a few weeks old . |
| 19 | Oh yes , yes you know where you work in the Derbyshire Peaks , I had a guide here a few weeks ago , and I kept it , it 's upstairs , and it actually put the English Channel going up there , the Peak District . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It took the combined brain power of the teachers quite a few weeks to arrive at this simple routine for getting into Friday assembly . |
| 22 | We did n't meet that night , but we went to a restaurant together a few weeks later and he said he was interested in the scripts . |
| 23 | Cast your minds back a few weeks . |
| 24 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 25 | It was thought that he would be able to rest better during the day when the unit switched to night shooting , but daughter Emma only a few weeks old — had other ideas . |
| 26 | And Oxford , since bringing in 20 year old Ian Gardiner to stroke position just a few weeks ago , are now edging ahead as favourites . |
| 27 | On the death of his eldest brother only a few weeks later , he was apprenticed to his father as a chemist . |
| 28 | Carter and the Shah met again for the second and final time only a few weeks later , It was New Years Eve in Teheran , Carter was on a hectic world swing and Teheran was a convenient resting place between Warsaw and New Delhi . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend will have welcomed the substantial arms and explosives finds in Belfast just a few weeks ago . |