Example sentences of "[num] week [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With just six weeks to go to the British Olympic trials , officials wanted all concerned to be aware of the potential repercussions following the recent National Olympic Committee meeting when it was decided that anyone guilty of a violation the IOC medical code would be ineligible for any British team . |
| 2 | With less than six weeks to go to the Olympic trials , Read , the triple national champion , boosted her confidence by lowering her own eight-month-old 50m backstroke British record with an impressive 30.06sec . |
| 3 | Allow at least six weeks to recover from a head injury . |
| 4 | With only six weeks to run before the 1987 general election , the NIREX plans were unceremoniously junked . |
| 5 | Instead Taylor and his players must wait for 10 weeks to build on the foundations laid against the Turks — but , in an attempt to maintain some continuity , Taylor is planning an unscheduled pre-Christmas get-together . |
| 6 | An appeal can also be made if the council takes more than eight weeks to come to a decision — this is called an appeal against non-determination . |
| 7 | Lamb said : ‘ There is still three weeks to go before the team leaves and we will monitor events very carefully between now and then . |
| 8 | It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough . |
| 9 | The Minister must realise that the public are not that interested in boring details about procedures — for example , about whether a public utility is supposed to take a maximum of two weeks or three weeks to reply to a letter of complaint . |
| 10 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 11 | We took four or five weeks to get across the Atlantic , being pursued by enemy submarines — all very worrying ! — and while Ben was setting Auden 's Hymn to St Cecilia and writing A Ceremony of Carols I started to put the Grimes scenario into shape . |
| 12 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 13 | It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days . |
| 14 | ‘ Two weeks to go before the competition , ’ said Mr Gordon one evening . |