Example sentences of "[noun] a few weeks [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) .
2 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 .
3 But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death .
4 European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance .
5 Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom .
6 Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ?
7 Hardly the kind of sentiment to galvanise an inexperienced squad a few weeks before its departure for an eight-match tour to New Zealand .
8 as if to confirm these notions of her importance , an enormous party was held in the villa a few weeks after her arrival .
9 Darlington Tory MP and Schools Minister Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is ironic Durham County Council can find the money for a new nursery a few weeks before the general election .
10 Because you were also a contemporary of a student named Everett who fell to his death from a window in the next quad a few weeks before the car crash .
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