Example sentences of "[adv] than a week [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 2 | The victory condemned Howard Wilkinson 's team to their seventh consecutive match without a win — and another headache to follow their European Cup collapse less than a week ago . |
| 3 | " When you crept into my room less than a week ago , you were n't so shy about touching me . |
| 4 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 5 | It was in fact more than a week later that he finally arrived in Switham . |
| 6 | The partially clothed body of Carol Clark was found more than a week ago . |
| 7 | A 17-YEAR-OLD Fermanagh youth has died in hospital from injuries he received in a road accident more than a week ago . |
| 8 | At a meeting with the consortium more than a week ago , Caledonian directors said they would help only if they were given a controlling interest in the pit . |
| 9 | Rachel , 25 , was last night described as ‘ still poorly ’ in the psychiatric unit of Broadgreen Hospital where she was admitted more than a week ago . |
| 10 | She had not seen Luke since he had escorted her out of his hotel suite and seen her into a taxi on the night of the awards ceremony , more than a week previously . |