Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 2 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 3 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 4 | The sporting world is full of fairy tales … but if the name of Samantha Raeisi ever reaches the headlines its going to be quite a story … she 's from Swindon … she 's a mum … she 's a model … and a few years ago she was given just a few weeks to live … |
| 5 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 6 | And the Rose d'Or , a little hotel opened only a few weeks ago , promises a welcome alternative to the establishments of Apt , Aix and Cavaillon . |
| 7 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 8 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |
| 9 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |
| 10 | ‘ But you returned only a few weeks ago , during Holy Week ? ’ |
| 11 | It seems only a few weeks ago , but is probably about a year , since I , through Points of View , had to draw attention to the Department of Transport 's annual statistics bulletin , The Allocation of Road Track Costs . |
| 12 | The trouble started again a few weeks later and yet another overdrive was fitted , this one with double oil Deals , but the oil leak was Still there . |
| 13 | Decisions or plans that went awry a few weeks ago may now right themselves and the momentum of life steps up markedly . |
| 14 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 15 | The special Christmas shopping service , which will be hauled by British Rail diesel power direct from Butterley Station via Nottingham , Beeston and Loughborough to London , was announced only a few weeks ago and is already nearly full . |
| 16 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 17 | I hate bathing her in the sink because the kitchen is draughty , especially since a chunk of the wall fell out a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 18 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 19 | The spores apparently can live only a few weeks at most in the environment ; infections have been induced experimentally by contact with spores from the insect 's surroundings , but this is probably a minor source of infection in nature . |
| 20 | Pretty girls moved through McIllvanney 's life at an astonishing rate , though the last , who had endured a record six months , had left just a few weeks before . |
| 21 | This will bring an early return to Cleveland Park for Darlington-based Paul Bentley who was signed just a few weeks ago by the Midlands club from Boro . |
| 22 | p.s. saw Celtic play here a few weeks ago — a really SHITE team at the moment . |
| 23 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 24 | For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases . |
| 25 | The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester . |
| 26 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 27 | After living with his aunt for four years , Mr Banks moved in with his girlfriend , but he moved back home last September after the couple split up a few weeks later and became very depressed . |
| 28 | Make a note of their position and come back a few weeks later to collect them when they are fully grown . |
| 29 | ‘ We had one of those social workers come round a few weeks ago — she was doing a sort of survey of old age pensioners — some idea that they could live on twenty-five shillings a week for food . |
| 30 | Mr Bangemann 's intervention comes only a few weeks after Mr Major accused the President of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , of sabotaging the pound . |