Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first European distributor is UK , Maidenhead-based Protek Ltd — others will be named in the following weeks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Of course , no day is typical and there are particular tensions which emerge in the few weeks before the Christmas break . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Further details were expected to be finalized in the coming weeks and would be submitted to the Greek parliament for ratification . |
| 20 | A number of special guests are expected to be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 21 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 22 | The dates are expected to be announced in the coming weeks , including a London show at the Hackney Empire . |
| 23 | Wherever the game is played , and the possibility of alternate years in Manchester and Sydney will be discussed in the coming weeks , one team will always go into the match having just become champions , while the other will be at the start of their first defence . |
| 24 | His tremor had worsened in the past weeks , a mild oscillation had become a violent jerk of the head . |
| 25 | this polarisation of the country and its potential political consequences was recognised by the Conservative Government almost certainly well before the results of the 1987 general election were known … the development of policies to tackle the economic run-down and social deprivation of inner city areas was identified as a major thrust for the new government and many new initiatives were conceived in the first weeks of the new Parliament . |
| 26 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 27 | Around 200 people were killed in the six weeks of election campaigning , and nearly 200 on the first day of voting . |
| 28 | His father would never have heard of Isaac Rosenberg , an English poet , killed in the last weeks of the ‘ war to end all wars ’ . |
| 29 | The Trade Negotiations Committee ( TNC-the highest-level body involved in the Uruguay Round ) agreed on July 27 that the final ministerial meeting of the Uruguay Round should be held in the last weeks of 1990 , and accepted an invitation from the European Communities ( EC ) and Belgium that the meeting should be in Brussels , the Belgian capital . |
| 30 | RADIOHEAD , brooding Oxford-based band whose epic ‘ Creep ’ EP is released in the coming weeks , play Manchester University |