Example sentences of "[adj] week [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some weeks ago the secretary-general asked his staff to draw up plans to cover either an Iraqi withdrawal or an Iraqi defeat in the field . |
| 2 | A few weeks later the boy complained of a further assault ; the tailor was again convicted and once more fined £5 , but on this occasion the clerk to the Board applied successfully to the magistrates for the boy to be discharged from his indentures . |
| 3 | He received an immediate apology , but a few weeks later the picture turned up again — this time accompanying a feature on prostitution in Paris . |
| 4 | A few weeks ago a friend took me back to Dieniolen , near Bangor . |
| 5 | It 's very much concerned with the training and Ministry of Elders and a few weeks ago a part of our programme we held a very successful and lively meeting on the subject of church membership . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 7 | A few weeks ago the boundary hedge was fired . |
| 8 | A few weeks ago the Secretary of State , Sir Keith Joseph , announced that he would like schools and the educational world generally , to explore whether they could define specific objectives for particular subjects . |
| 9 | A few weeks ago the Wrekin Council in Shropshire banned the use of metal detectors from its 5,000 hectares of land . |
| 10 | And just a few weeks ago the man he found , Deputy Prime Minister Leszek Balcerowicz electrified the finance ministers of the developed world with a seven-page plan to ‘ transform the Polish economy into a market economy ’ . |
| 11 | Well a few weeks ago the city fathers installed dose nasty little tings at a cost , believe it or not , sir , of some turty tree tousand pounds , and the day atterwards dey declared the whole area a no waiting zone . ’ |
| 12 | A LUCKY corgi 's remarkable good fortune continues this week just a month after it was saved by a kindly Darlington couple . |
| 13 | Terrorist action hit central London again this week when a firebomb , thought to have been planted by the IRA , exploded in Dillons , Trafalgar Square , early on Wednesday morning . |
| 14 | THE end of mortgage interest tax relief came a step closer this week when the Chancellor of the Exchequer — while retaining the existing interest relief ceiling of £30,000 — announced that from next year , the rate at which relief is given will be cut from 25 to 20 per cent . |
| 15 | A NEW tradition begins this week when the city of York holds its first annual St Nicholas Fayre . |
| 16 | Please note also that for this week ONLY the evening Mass at St. Philip 's Priory , Begbroke has been transferred from Wednesday to Thursday evening , for the Feast of St. Philip Benizi , at 7.00 pm . |
| 17 | Six weeks later the grey won the Ayr Gold Cup for his new trainer . |
| 18 | Six weeks later the town , which had suffered heavily from the bombardment of English cannon , capitulated . |
| 19 | Twenty editions were published in the six weeks following the King 's death , and several more even after the book was banned by the Government . |
| 20 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 21 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 22 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 23 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
| 24 | They 'd been married just eight weeks when the accident happened . |
| 25 | Three weeks nearly a month Sue mate . |
| 26 | The shooting followed incidents over the last two or three weeks where the family 's other two cats have returned home and have been violently sick . |
| 27 | The four zero food experiment consists of three stages : three weeks following the zero plan , four days on the rest test , and five days on the restart plan . |
| 28 | But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay . |
| 29 | All week long the behaviour of the crowd had been impeccable . |
| 30 | Each week when the House is sitting the Home Secretary will confer with the officers of his party 's Home Affairs Committee . |