Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strongly hinted that " a dividend is expected in a few weeks time " which is equivalent to " a discount on the purchase price . " |
| 2 | Nurse Eileen Farragher said : ‘ Physically he 'll be okay to go back to work in a few weeks — but mentally he 's still shocked . ’ |
| 3 | It is done in spring or early summer on outdoor plants , and rooting may take up to a year ; pot plants are layered any time and should root in a few weeks . |
| 4 | Its first European distributor is UK , Maidenhead-based Protek Ltd — others will be named in the following weeks . |
| 5 | Presented by his record company , Columbia , an audience of 20,000 are expected to grace New York 's Madison Square Garden for a live extravaganza featuring a host of stars to be named in the coming weeks . |
| 6 | At this time his poetic inspiration returned , and some of his finest work was written in the last weeks of his life , including his most famous poem , ‘ Heart of the Heartless World ’ . |
| 7 | A small army of workers will be moving into C&A to start shop fitting in a few weeks ' time . |
| 8 | Informed consent was obtained and patients were questioned as to whether they had experienced any upper abdominal pain or heartburn in the two weeks before endoscopy . |
| 9 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
| 10 | The town horses came in every three weeks or a month for re-shoeing . |
| 11 | IBM 's last major win in the region came in the closing weeks of 1992 , when the Slovak Ministry of Finance placed an order for 120 RS/6000s and 1,050 PS/1s along with system software to manage tax administration and collection . |
| 12 | Why do the Government continue to extol the virtues of this obnoxious Gummerburger food culture instead of instituting an independent food standards agency as the Labour Government will do in a few weeks ' time ? |
| 13 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 14 | Most of those applications were made in a few weeks . |
| 15 | If the technical regulations are applied vigorously , massive upheaval could follow in the three weeks between yesterday 's race and the eighth round of the world championship in France . |
| 16 | So if you do n't know the difference between a fork and a desperado , we hope our brief guide below will help you understand some of terms you are likely to hear in the coming weeks . |
| 17 | ZOOLOGIST Kristy Bird 's love affair with Africa resumes in a few weeks when she embarks on a special project to study the impact of poaching on Kenya 's elephant population . |
| 18 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 19 | ALTAN 'S LAST record , ‘ The Red Crow ’ , arrived in the final weeks of 1990 , a season when the huge stars normally hog all the attention and life is quiet in the Bush League of humble folkie bands . |
| 20 | The Abortion Pill is best used in the early weeks of a pregnancy — certainly in the first three months , although in some cases it can be used later . |
| 21 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 22 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 23 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 24 | A handsome little fellow and filled with mischief as boys should be ; no doubt this was Beth 's son , and , taking into account the years between , no doubt begot in the early weeks of Beth 's marriage . |
| 25 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 26 | She remembered Elizabeth saying in the first weeks of her engagement to Alex , ‘ Do you know , you 're a rather intimidating couple ? ’ and she had been tempted to reply , ‘ Oh , we are , we are . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , no day is typical and there are particular tensions which emerge in the few weeks before the Christmas break . |
| 28 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 29 | Both Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) and Leff and Vaughn ( 1980 ) found that life events tend to be concentrated in the three weeks before the onset of schizophrenic symptoms . |
| 30 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |