Example sentences of "few weeks [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expects to sign a facilities management contract within a few weeks that is ‘ bigger ’ than the $53m seven-year contract it signed with Mory-TNTE in December . |
| 2 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 3 | For a few weeks each autumn , conkers was the game in vogue . |
| 4 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
| 5 | If none of these ideas is possible , would she be willing to spend a few weeks each year in a home for the elderly or , if she is infirm , in a nursing home or a local National Health Service hospital ? |
| 6 | Recorders and Assistant Recorders are senior barristers or solicitors who sit as judges a few weeks each year . |
| 7 | Recorders ( of whom there are over seven hundred , plus some five hundred Assistant Recorders ) are practising barristers or solicitors who are required to sit for a few weeks each year . |
| 8 | Though water is solid for much of the year , the annual thaw in spring and summer provides a wide range of aquatic habitats that support biological activity , and may even allow high productivity for a few weeks each year . |
| 9 | But over the past few weeks many Americans have sensed a change in her . |
| 10 | The majority of these early volunteers were ex-service men , some with experience of World War I and within a few weeks many of us teenagers barely sixteen jointed the unit . |
| 11 | I would welcome a debate , but in the next few weeks many issues have to be fitted into the timetable , not least progress on Government legislation . |
| 12 | In the next few weeks many people will be coming to class for the first time . |
| 13 | For a few weeks all went well , until three New Bradwell ex POWs , Ron Preston , Jack Henshaw and George Wood could not get a hire car due to petrol being rationed . |
| 14 | The FT-SE 100 Index shed around 4 points at 2717.9 at the close but over the next few weeks all eyes will be on the pound . |
| 15 | After a few weeks all our money was gone and everything was in pawn so Dad had to go to the relief office . |
| 16 | After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock . |
| 17 | Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season . |
| 18 | Most large towns in Britain with sizable Asian communities have three or four resident hakims , and an unknown number visit Britain from abroad to practise for a few weeks several times a year . |
| 19 | At the same time he supposedly played really well in these matches and got an offer from Juve to stay with them for a few weeks this winter . |