Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |
| 2 | One damp , cold , windy night a few weeks later , Fagin put on his heavy coat and , with the collar pulled up high to hide his face , left his home . |
| 3 | It was hardly a coincidence that the MATIF launched an Italian Government Bond future contract a few weeks ahead of LIFFE 's similar product in September 1991 . |
| 4 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 5 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co folks laid us a false trail a few weeks ago when we reported — on their say-so — that the company would be letting two more Snakes out of the basket come mid September ( UX No 397 ) . |
| 7 | At the inevitable inquest a few weeks later which , mercifully , thanks to Edna 's and Bert 's discretion , the appalling weather and her own reclusive way of life , was held almost in private , she sat in the court , her head bowed , her once handsome face lined and drawn . |
| 8 | Hardly the kind of sentiment to galvanise an inexperienced squad a few weeks before its departure for an eight-match tour to New Zealand . |
| 9 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 10 | . Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced the Channel Tunnel has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers , and after that incident a few weeks ago , which was er certainly played down by the authorities , I wonder just how safe the Tunnel is . |
| 11 | NCR notes that it added 3270 Terminal Support a few weeks back . |
| 12 | One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 13 | Though the Welsh version continues to go out on the day it is filmed , the new audience will be regaled with story lines familiar to the Welsh audience a few weeks later . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Erm I think we covered it briefly but erm covered it perhaps in slightly greater detail when when we had the preliminary interview a few weeks ago . |
| 16 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 17 | And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group . |
| 18 | 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 . |