Example sentences of "[adj] week when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 3 | The consultant explained that the lungs mature at around 36 weeks when a substance called surfactant is produced . |
| 4 | Accident-prone German chemicals giant Hoechst suffered its ninth toxic discharge in five weeks when a cloud of acid fumes escaped from its main plant in Frankfurt [ see ED 69 ] . |
| 5 | There were certain weeks when a driver went every night , others when they could get by with three deliveries a week . |
| 6 | Until last week when a detective took a statement from her . |
| 7 | Over in Ireland , BOB DYLAN got his collar felt last week when a hotel security guard accosted him as he crept stealthily down a little-used fire escape . |
| 8 | This quest for control of resources caused a row in the London Borough of Newham last week when a council recommendation to fund a refugee centre was — unsuccessfully in the end — opposed by Muslim councillors , who argued for a Muslim centre instead . |
| 9 | The Shankill councillor said he wants the crash barriers erected on the Springfield Road close to the scene of an accident last week when a woman and her young child were struck by a stolen car . |
| 10 | That was apparently the case in Cleveland last week when an officer was knocked out by a concrete chunk thrown through a windscreen . |
| 11 | The first steps were taken last week when an experiment to monitor ‘ machine-readable passports ’ ( MRPs ) was launched at Heathrow airport . |