Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few weeks [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
2 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |
3 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
4 | The decision to cut the federal funds rate — the level at which banks borrow from each other overnight — from 4 to 33/4 p.c. is a far cry from market concerns of a few weeks ago that the Fed might soon tighten monetary policy . |
5 | Guitarist Simon Walker left right at the end of recording and so , as of a few weeks ago , we have a brand-new House Of Love guitarist — ex-Woodentop Simon Mawby , fresh from playing funky Chic-style stuff behind Jimmy Somerville , and now in the unenviable position of trying to learn the new album while compressing three guitar parts into one in order to play it live . |
6 | ‘ Nevertheless , the atmosphere today compared to that of a few weeks ago is more conducive to a satisfactory settlement , ’ concluded Donald . |
7 | Duff Cooper , against all expectations of a few weeks before , won by a majority of nearly 6000 . |
8 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
9 | It helps if you both keep independent jealousy logs for a few weeks beforehand . |
10 | Could you not have sat tight in the fellow 's house for a few weeks longer ? ’ |
11 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
12 | Well I thought if I get one this size , that will do for a few weeks rather than take some of them home and mess about better than there 's a big packet like a big one at home I 've just opened this morning so it 's |
13 | Oh good oh right so er so you can you can do project for a few weeks fairly solidly before the end of term course when deadlines start looming . |
14 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
15 | It is a long way , yeah , yeah , but still , I mean if you do n't have a win for a few weeks then you have a hundred pound it 's ha |
16 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
17 | Having used the preamp for a few weeks now I have got bored with the presets and want to start using it to create some more familiar sounds . |
18 | There 's somebody came in today , a guy came in today who used to work with us who usually comes in occasionally and I would see him , but for a few weeks now , so he noticed it . |
19 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
20 | I honestly do n't know , when I spoke to her this morning she said she has n't erm for a , for a few weeks now she has n't placed anybody |
21 | But now we 're in the top erm position , we 've been in the top position for a few weeks now , it obviously erm makes you think that whether it 's a possibility . |
22 | I had a meal out with a friend recently , and now we 've got mother into hospital for a few weeks so that I can take my husband away on holiday . |
23 | Lord John Russell was Foreign Secretary for a few weeks only in Aberdeen 's Coalition Government , when on 21st February , 1853 , he was replaced by George Villiers , fourth Earl of Clarendon ( 1800–70 ) who held the post until February 1858 , in both Aberdeen 's and Palmerston 's Governments . |
24 | A stranger who enters the land for a few weeks solely to do some work on it does not fall into this category . " |
25 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
26 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes COSE really wants it to join , something it was n't quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
27 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes that the Common Open Software Environment crowd really want it to join them , something that it was not quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
28 | It 's not like the prayers that we heard about a few weeks ago , from Paul 's letters to Timothy and Philemon , where he was addressing an individual . |
29 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
30 | With a few weeks in between . |