Example sentences of "[noun] only [art] [det] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Desi Grew had been in prison several times for terrorist offences , Martin McCoffey had left Dungannon Council only a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | It had been brought to the house by a friend only a few weeks earlier for shooting rabbits on the Blenheim estate . |
| 7 | He succeeded his brother as viscount on 14 December 1812 , but held the title only a few weeks before his own death . |
| 8 | 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: it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the death of his eldest brother only a few weeks later , he was apprenticed to his father as a chemist . |
| 15 | 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 . |