Example sentences of "[adv] for [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Just for a few weeks . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He and Sybil took off for a few weeks ' holiday before going back to London . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ask Lina if she 'd like to come up and help out for a few weeks ? |
| 18 | In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks . |
| 19 | I 've heard in fac er in my factory , I 've heard it in other places , right , when a temporary l temporary or casual worker goes down the road , or a part-timer work 's cut short , ah it 's only a casual and he only expected to be here for a few weeks . |
| 20 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 21 | Not even for a few weeks . |
| 22 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 23 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 24 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 25 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
| 26 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ said Li Shai Tung , brightening , ‘ why not take Jelka there for a few weeks ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 29 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 30 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |