Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [art] [det] weeks " in BNC.

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1 But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic .
2 In a statement , the company said : All Meon Villas are inspected a few weeks prior to the start of each letting season , with particular emphasis on safety .
3 Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television .
4 The position of goods may be changed every few weeks .
5 Sites at Ballyhannon have caused the greatest furore , with five acres being sold a few weeks ago for £250,000 .
6 For example , in the UK the average period between the ex dividend date and payment of the dividend is fifty three days , while the dividend is announced a few weeks before the ex dividend date ( Yadav and Pope , 1992b ) .
7 The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party .
8 After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago .
9 ‘ When the draw for the quarter-final was made a few weeks ago , I was delighted at being paired with Derry City ’ he declared .
10 The response from designers and knitters included plenty of suggestions for improvement in the basic shapes and version 2 of Designaknit was born a few weeks later .
11 For although Britain , France , Germany and Italy had guaranteed the frontiers of that country ( minus the Sudetenland ) at that same conference , the Czech Republic was fragmented a few weeks later , and by the following March Germany had completed her design by totally absorbing an independent state .
12 The move followed a visit to Singapore in August by the Chinese Premier , Li Peng [ see p. 37656 ] , and the renewal that month of China 's diplomatic relations with Indonesia , and was followed a few weeks later by a visit by Lee Kuan Yew to China [ see p. 37780 ] .
13 However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered .
14 An open audition was advertised a few weeks later and Carl beat over 900 other young hopefuls singing Hole in the Ground , a song popularised by Bernard Cribbins .
15 It is understood that Mr Dunn 's position became untenable when GEC-Ferranti 's initial budget for the coming year — which revealed the extent of the cost overrun — was rejected a few weeks ago by Derek Dickinson , chief executive of GEC-Marconi Avionics , the division to which GEC-Ferranti belongs .
16 One young man was killed a few weeks before the Armistice .
17 But that particular day she did n't know beforehand , this was planned a few weeks in advance as you can imagine .
18 The last race in the series was held a few weeks ago near Gifford in which he was placed fifth .
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