Example sentences of "a [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 2 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 3 | Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them . |
| 4 | Replacements will be needed within a few weeks . ’ |
| 5 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 6 | A few weeks back here in the World wo n't do my career serious harm . |
| 7 | Class 50 No 50021 Rodney leaves Newton Abbot with the 10.30 Liverpool to Penzance train on 10 March 1987 a few weeks before the removal of the semaphore signals . |
| 8 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | After a few weeks of this , I can guarantee you 'll be feeling quite a different person , and unable to wait to get out for your Sainsbury 's session , or your Waitrose-lifting ! |
| 10 | In a few weeks ' time , the fallen leaves will have risen from ankle to knee deep . |
| 11 | The Ethiopian army , the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa , consists largely of press-ganged young peasants or unemployed urban teenagers who have been drafted to the front after a few weeks ' training . |
| 12 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 13 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 14 | She has been a member of the party since 1911 , and for 50 years , until a few weeks ago , collected subscriptions . |
| 15 | In July , a few weeks before she died , Katherine started High Court proceedings against Mr Egan and his publishing house for breach of copyright . |
| 16 | Further , crack is not ‘ instantly ’ addictive ; it takes , usually , a few weeks of regular sessions to produce addictive tendencies . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | A few weeks later he flew to Britain . |
| 19 | We stop the jeep for a few words with the Marines , some I recognise from a few weeks ago when they were on their way to take up positions on the coast , on the left of 1st Commando Brigade . |
| 20 | And yes , you 've guessed it — a few weeks later what should I discover among my mail but a letter : ‘ Dear Mr Ken Ward , where may I purchase an emergency … |
| 21 | Although this is a fair wage , it is n't going to sustain a rock ‘ n ’ roll superstar lifestyle for longer than a few weeks , so it is only by sensible use of budgets that the real size of the advances can be put in context . |
| 22 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 23 | Within a few weeks they were regular visitors . |
| 24 | The sun is setting now , midnight sun ending a few weeks before , but it only disappears for an hour and even then it leaves behind its mark of golden twilight . |
| 25 | After a few weeks the final — and expected — decision was made and Shanaz was sent back to Pakistan , frightened and uncertain about the future . |
| 26 | List all your outgoings and expenses over a few weeks . |
| 27 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 28 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 29 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
| 30 | Until a few weeks ago you were jumping with passion . |