Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] weeks [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took the net down after a few weeks but kept it handy , you know . |
| 2 | She lost her job after a few weeks and what little money my Dad had left quickly went on drugs and booze . |
| 3 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 4 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 5 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 6 | For the best way to job-hunt in Europe is by going to the country of your choice for a few weeks and signing up with several private employment agencies . |
| 7 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 8 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 9 | The Mongols stayed in Fontanellato for a few weeks and did no harm to anybody . |
| 10 | We have our little rule book and we let a woman come into the Guild for a few weeks and then she 's told the rules . |
| 11 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 12 | Failing that , should we put the grand EC official who is in charge of such policies — Mr. Legras — in a veal crate for a few weeks and see whether he changes his mind after that ? |
| 13 | It was alright for a few weeks and then it began to look very anaemic and sorry for itself . |
| 14 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
| 15 | Sniffed for a few weeks or months . |
| 16 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 17 | Those who could live on savings for a few weeks or months were ‘ that rare class ’ . |
| 18 | The improvement in arthritis , gout , blood pressure , diabetes , or blood cholesterol level may be dramatic , and evident within a few weeks or months of a dietary programme . |
| 19 | The water-soluble vitamins , however , are not usually stored in the body in any great amount , so deficiency can develop within a few weeks or months if the diet is poor . |
| 20 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 21 | Most found jobs within a few weeks and the longest any of them was unemployed was three months . |
| 22 | You leave school in a few weeks and you 've got to make yourself a living . |
| 23 | Apple is expected to launch its own personal digital organiser in a few weeks and other companies are expected to follow suit later in the year . |
| 24 | ‘ Is there a potential on the Earth now , ’ Tooley asked , ‘ for catastrophic , subglacial floods raising sea level by 23cm in a few weeks or several metres in a few years ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 26 | I am convinced that if the hon. Gentleman were ever in a position of responsibility in the House — the likelihood of which is becoming increasingly remote — he would also find himself advised that it would be foolish to put before the House proposals which in a few weeks or months might fall outside the law . |
| 27 | So I stayed on a few weeks and erm then I went back to London |