Example sentences of "[verb] only 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 5 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But you returned only a few weeks ago , during Holy Week ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 12 | For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may be all very well when you have a goal in sight and you have only a few weeks to get through . |
| 15 | I have only a few weeks to live . ’ |
| 16 | For seventeenth-century Somerset , J. H. Hamer has shown the influence of White Down fair near Crewkerne , and Christopher Gerrard has shown that two fairs at Taunton held only a few weeks apart had a major influence on the trading of cattle and horses in the West Country . |