Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a few weeks " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You have an immense output , ’ Willoughby said severely to Emily a few weeks later , leaning over her desk as if he were a judge himself . |
| 32 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 33 | He had already invited his new young friend to travel to Stowey a few weeks later , and when they parted after six miles , Hazlitt was possessed by a single thought : ‘ I was to visit Coleridge in the spring . ’ |
| 34 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
| 35 | Then there were the obituaries for Gottwald a few weeks later . |
| 36 | ‘ Everyone wrote off Norwich a few weeks ago , but they beat Sheffield United in midweek while we lost , and Villa slipped up by only drawing with Tottenham . |
| 37 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 38 | Recordings of spontaneous interaction were made , first at home a few weeks before starting school , and then in the classroom after approximately six weeks at school . |
| 39 | IBM demonstrated OS/2 and OSF/1 running concurrently on a PS/2 at Comdex a few weeks back , using the multiple personality capabilities of OSF 's Mach-based microkernel technology . |
| 40 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |