Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] weeks [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the four weeks an estimated 66000 people passed through the lounge when the team was present . |
| 2 | During the subsequent weeks the haematocrit usually stabilises at a low level , but only at the expense of a two- to three-fold compensatory expansion of erythropoiesis . |
| 3 | After a few weeks the final — and expected — decision was made and Shanaz was sent back to Pakistan , frightened and uncertain about the future . |
| 4 | After a few weeks the foal gains sufficient confidence to start establishing friendships with other foals , and as the weeks pass it will spend more time with them , and less with its mother — unless it is frightened , and then it will dash back to her side for security and reassurance . |
| 5 | After a few weeks the time log sheets are analysed for you by a specialist who duly reports back on how you have been spending your time . |
| 6 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 7 | After a few weeks the female was observed ‘ glancing ’ off the side of the male and both were developing breeding coloration . |
| 8 | They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’ |
| 9 | By the last of the three weeks the Gofer teams were performing brilliantly . |
| 10 | She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years . |
| 11 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 12 | They were the only ones allowed through in the five weeks the children were away from home . |
| 13 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 14 | In the coming weeks the The England party is due to visit outposts such as Cuttack , Jampshedpu and Ahmedabad which may only be reached by tortuous train journeys of up to 15 hours , some requiring overnight travel between games . |
| 15 | In the ensuing weeks the two parties negotiated an agreement on a transitional federal coalition which would effectively oversee the dismantling of the Czechoslovak state . |
| 16 | The instructions therein were religiously followed and within a few weeks a recognisable fuselage could be sat in for some ‘ hangar flying ’ . |
| 17 | However , if there is no improvement within a few weeks an appropriate referral should be made . |
| 18 | And sure enough , within a few weeks the inches disappeared . |
| 19 | Within a few weeks the disease had spread rapidly amongst the poorer people of Funchal , especially among the families of the boatmen . |
| 20 | Within a few weeks the office is flooded out with envelopes stuffed with cash . |
| 21 | Within a few weeks the Minister Mrs Hedy d'Ancona , who is on record as saying that some of the works are in such poor condition that they can not be given away without loss of face , will come forward with a number of proposals . |
| 22 | In a few weeks the bird will be back in the fighting ring . ’ |
| 23 | Over the coming weeks the government will make up its mind on a programme of computing research that could cost £350 million . |