Example sentences of "[prep] a few weeks of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few weeks of this , I can guarantee you 'll be feeling quite a different person , and unable to wait to get out for your Sainsbury 's session , or your Waitrose-lifting ! |
| 2 | After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence . |
| 3 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |
| 4 | After a few weeks of relative calm — the ‘ phoney war ’ — chauvinism was revived by the German invasion of Norway . |
| 5 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 7 | After a few weeks of our secret meetings , I thought that Sarah had discovered the fact that we were both , in our different ways , being unfaithful to her . |
| 8 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 9 | Within a few weeks of their meeting , England was at war . |
| 10 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 11 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 12 | Within a few weeks of the outbreak of war , the Luftwaffe had a new name for the east coast of Scotland where the skies were patrolled by the young men of the City of Glasgow Squadron , and its leaders , Wing Commander Farquhar , Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton , and Squadron Leader Johnstone . |
| 13 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 14 | Within a few weeks of the payout , Mr Curtis claimed , £1 million had vanished from their Inca Gemstones company , and been partly used for ‘ unlawful or improper purposes , ’ hidden from shareholders . |
| 15 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 16 | Within a few weeks of setting eyes on Judith he had managed to supersede Zacharias in her affections , and the three had dwindled to a blissful two . |
| 17 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 18 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
| 19 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 20 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
| 21 | Their room at school , within a few weeks of Katherine arrival , had by a few deft touches and additions acquired a new look . |
| 22 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 23 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 24 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 25 | Within a few weeks of his arrival , we had shown that , half an hour after training ( that is , about the same time as the changes in membrane phosphorylation ) , there is a dramatic increase in the expression of c-fos and c-jun proteins in cells of the IMHV . |
| 26 | Within a few weeks of this tragedy , on 29 May 1985 , further disaster struck at the European Cup Final between Italy 's Juventus and England 's Liverpool at Brussels ' Heysel Stadium . |
| 27 | Within a few weeks of the Ashleys moving in , she drove up , knocked on the door and welcomed them to the area . |
| 28 | These ‘ signatures ’ were mostly added by an employee of Kahnweiler 's when they reached his gallery ; this was usually , though clearly not always , within a few weeks of being painted . |
| 29 | ‘ It is just 21 months since we received approval to go ahead with the project , and we are delighted that we have started up production within a few weeks of a date that many thought was unrealistic ! ’ |
| 30 | Within a few weeks of his appointment the new Metropolitan was urging , in an interview with Romania Libera , that religion be taught in schools and announcing that a Synod-appointed commission would select the basic religious concepts to be taught in primary , junior and senior schools . |