Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 2 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 3 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |
| 4 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 5 | Anyway , it 's only for a few weeks , you said . |
| 6 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 7 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 8 | If Baldwin met Parliament , Lloyd George might keep the Conservatives in for a few weeks to humiliate them . |
| 9 | However , most mares settle down after a few weeks . |
| 10 | They took the net down after a few weeks but kept it handy , you know . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 14 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 15 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 16 | Just for a few weeks . ’ |
| 17 | She made a mental note to check the tariff later with the receptionist — there would be little point in living so comfortably for a few weeks if the bill swallowed most of her wages at the end of it . |
| 18 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 19 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 20 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 21 | From the moment that you arrive at college you will be involved in what is popularly known as " taking notes " and as likely as not within a few weeks you will be the possessor of tattered notebooks filled with illegible hieroglyphics or , worse still , of masses of mixed-up bits of paper . |
| 22 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 23 | He and Sybil took off for a few weeks ' holiday before going back to London . |
| 24 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
| 25 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 26 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Often the drive surface is just skimmed with tarmac which breaks up in a few weeks . |
| 29 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 30 | ‘ I hope to meet with the CAA in the next 10 days and we might be able to tie everything up within a few weeks , ’ he said . |