Example sentences of "[prep] a few weeks the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few weeks the final — and expected — decision was made and Shanaz was sent back to Pakistan , frightened and uncertain about the future . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a few weeks the female was observed ‘ glancing ’ off the side of the male and both were developing breeding coloration . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And sure enough , within a few weeks the inches disappeared . |
| 8 | Within a few weeks the disease had spread rapidly amongst the poorer people of Funchal , especially among the families of the boatmen . |
| 9 | Within a few weeks the office is flooded out with envelopes stuffed with cash . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In a few weeks the bird will be back in the fighting ring . ’ |