Example sentences of "[adj] week [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game about to be got under way here , it 's the second time of course that we 've had the taste of European football in just er inside a few weeks here at Lane , a very poor night for weather , you who 've not ventured out well , I think we understand that er because er as we say , it 's not a night when you would turn the dog out . |
| 2 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 3 | Now they use tractors , some pesticides , some inorganic fertilisers , but nevertheless most of the people of Umbria voted a few weeks ago in favour of a referendum which would have severely restricted the sale , and therefore the consumption , of pesticides . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 6 | ’ They have raided the Glen Moriston site twice this week already in strength , and they said they would return before the end of the week . |
| 7 | The Jamaican-born winger is six weeks ahead of schedule and if he comes through this test against a Tranmere side , he will be on target for an appearance in the Premier League match at QPR on November 23 . |
| 8 | The £5.6m scheme for the Army Airt Corps in Dishforth was handed over six weeks ahead of schedule . |
| 9 | they 've got six weeks exactly until Easter |
| 10 | He was arrested three weeks later in possession of a giro cheque which had been stolen from another woman mugged in nearby Old Kent Road . |
| 11 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 12 | Uniplex is putting itself in a position to do that internally with the acquisition three weeks ago of IMI Consulting , a $2.3m Connecticut-based subsidiary of Uniplex 's $1,500m parent company IMI Plc specialised in downsizing , gateways , SNA and big computing environments . |
| 13 | Uniplex is putting itself in a position to do that internally with the acquisition three weeks ago of IMI Consulting , a $2.3m Connecticut-based subsidiary of Uniplex 's $1,500m parent company IMI plc specialised in downsizing , gateways , SNA and big IT environments . |
| 14 | More recently , they have contributed towards the services of a much needed nurse , and it is for this cause that they continue to donate a set sum each week together with raffle sales and other activities from which they will soon reach their target of another £600 , the same sum that was given earlier this year . |
| 15 | I was always being ill with minor ailments such as earache or tonsillitis , and often spent as much as three consecutive weeks away from school as a result . |
| 16 | On May 27 it was reported that the last 119 Cuban troops remaining in Angola had arrived home in Havana , five weeks ahead of schedule [ see pp. 36479-81 for 1988 agreement under which the Cuban troops were to be withdrawn ] . |
| 17 | the legal costs of sale and purchase of property including solicitor 's fees and stamp duty , £3,750 ; estate agent 's commission , £750 ; bridging finance ( one month at 13% ) , £758 ; cost associated with mortgages , in particular the additional cost of a bigger mortgage to cover the greater cost of housing ( company loan over 3 years ) , £1,500 ; cost of removal and , if necessary , storage , including insurance , £500 ; hotel and travel expenses including visits by wife to area to see houses , ( 15 weeks away from home plus two visits by wife ) , £2,420 ; cost of alterations to carpets and curtains , re-installing appliances , connecting telephone etc , alterations to property , redecoration and refurbishment , school uniforms and other educational expenses , maintenance , etc. of vacant , unsold property and miscellaneous incidental costs including vet 's fees , kennels , etc. , £2,000 . |
| 18 | Indeed , a number of other schemes are being undertaken such as the new granulator at Cambrian Stone 's Llanwern site , due to be completed several weeks ahead of programme , and the new screens and bins at Craigantlet . |
| 19 | Bob Doig , president of the Scottish Potato Trade Association , made that claim yesterday ; an appeal he made several weeks ago in conjunction with the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland . |
| 20 | This proposes that all women should be entitled to maternity leave for 14 weeks regardless of length of service . |
| 21 | There are two years in which to implement the Directive , but implementing provisions relating to the entitlement to maternity leave for 14 weeks regardless of length of service are contained in the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill 1992 , which was published on 5 November . |
| 22 | The Association of Printing Employers ( APEP ) on Feb. 20 asked for the release of N'Sasse Ramazani , a regional director of the journal Elima , imprisoned two weeks previously for contempt of court , having written an article against corruption . |
| 23 | A safe place Both said they were delighted the scheme had begun two weeks ahead of schedule and promised residents and visitors a safer and more pleasant place to shop . |
| 24 | Remarkably , the five-month build programme finished two weeks ahead of schedule , despite being dogged by bad weather . |
| 25 | It was two weeks away from Christmas . |
| 26 | Herrick tells me you have a first draft two weeks away from completion . |
| 27 | Will the Prime Minister reconsider his answer to me two weeks ago on mortgage repossessions ? |
| 28 | Policy changes announced two weeks ago by Education Secretary Kenneth Clarke to allow the expansion of ‘ popular schools ’ were immediately condemned as a ‘ vote-catching con ’ . |
| 29 | Two weeks ago in church the snivelling little bastard got up in the pulpit and told us not to be frightened of death . |
| 30 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |