Example sentences of "few weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £195 for the day classes and £171 for evening classes payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 32 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £98 — payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 33 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 34 | Courtney , in his own evidence , claimed to have heard that Miss C gained a reputation for being ‘ easy ’ during the first few weeks of her stay at University College . |
| 35 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 36 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 37 | Within a few weeks of the payout , Mr Curtis claimed , £1 million had vanished from their Inca Gemstones company , and been partly used for ‘ unlawful or improper purposes , ’ hidden from shareholders . |
| 38 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 39 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 40 | Within a few weeks of setting eyes on Judith he had managed to supersede Zacharias in her affections , and the three had dwindled to a blissful two . |
| 41 | For the first few weeks of term this was a problem . |
| 42 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 43 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 44 | But in those few weeks of her being pregnant , it immediately became our child . |
| 45 | He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government . |
| 46 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 47 | Then a last few weeks of freedom at High Brook . |
| 48 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 49 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
| 50 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 51 | After a critical few weeks of talks with the Minister-Presidents a compromise was reached by which a German government would be created , but without giving the impression that this meant a permanent division . |
| 52 | For example Marie , a student at B who , in the first few weeks of term , felt herself to be getting behind with work , was concerned about the lack of help provided by the department : |
| 53 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
| 54 | The breathtaking pace of political upheaval in Eastern Europe , the Baltic region and Transcaucasia in the last few weeks of the 1980s has naturally focused international attention on those parts of the Soviet empire lying to the west of the Ural mountains , including those countries which were allotted to Joseph Stalin 's ‘ sphere of influence ’ at the end of the Second World War . |
| 55 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 56 | Their room at school , within a few weeks of Katherine arrival , had by a few deft touches and additions acquired a new look . |
| 57 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 58 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 59 | Now , however , she was dying of tuberculosis and , with only a few weeks of life left , the past was very much on her mind . |
| 60 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |