Example sentences of "few weeks before " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature : his last few weeks before his death from cancer , which he fought uncomplainingly and with great courage , were spent in devising an entertainment , ‘ The French Revolution through British Eyes ’ , for the RSL . |
| 3 | Her favourite Isabella ( later demoted to ‘ Lady in a Turban ’ ) was snapped up for the museum in 1896 , a few weeks before one of Berenson 's best finds , a Rembrandt self-portrait . |
| 4 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 5 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 6 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 7 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 8 | just a few weeks before her death he had written fondly to her on a postcard from Florence ( where the Sadler 's Wells Ballet went for the Maggio Musicale festival ) that she ‘ would love it so . |
| 9 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 10 | One young man was killed a few weeks before the Armistice . |
| 11 | A few weeks before my talk at Wellesley College , I had been in New York at the invitation of Social Policy , a leftist magazine with a record of antipathy toward IQ testing and its social implications . |
| 12 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 13 | Advice on living arrangements in the few weeks before departure may be necessary . |
| 14 | Hardly the kind of sentiment to galvanise an inexperienced squad a few weeks before its departure for an eight-match tour to New Zealand . |
| 15 | In the event , this official reformation was both rapid and radical , but up until just a few weeks before Henry 's death it had by no means been inevitable . |
| 16 | The photos were taken at Prkos , Dalmatia , a few weeks before VE Day . |
| 17 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 18 | Last autumn , the Group held a congress of European economic liberals in Vienna , a few weeks before the EC 's Intergovernmental Conference in Rome . |
| 19 | In March 1945 , a few weeks before the German surrender , Eliot was expressing his pessimism about the future ; a few days later he wrote his last commentary for the Christian News Letter and used the pseudonym of " Metoikos " or " resident alien " . |
| 20 | Recordings of spontaneous interaction were made , first at home a few weeks before starting school , and then in the classroom after approximately six weeks at school . |
| 21 | The Fnac has renewed its long-running offensive against the French system of r.p.m. on books — just a few weeks before the parliamentary elections which seem likely to spell defeat for France 's ruling Socialists , the party that brought in the Loi Lang to regulate book prices in 1981 . |
| 22 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |
| 23 | For example , in the UK the average period between the ex dividend date and payment of the dividend is fifty three days , while the dividend is announced a few weeks before the ex dividend date ( Yadav and Pope , 1992b ) . |
| 24 | I had graduated in 1930 and I left university in the following year , a few weeks before the economic collapse . |
| 25 | But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death . |
| 26 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 27 | He succeeded his brother as viscount on 14 December 1812 , but held the title only a few weeks before his own death . |
| 28 | Usually the committee of the Salon appointed a hanging committee which was automatically and unanimously approved by the general assembly at its annual meeting held a few weeks before the opening of the exhibition . |
| 29 | Of course , no day is typical and there are particular tensions which emerge in the few weeks before the Christmas break . |
| 30 | By September , a few weeks before an official visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Tun Razak , the Soviet press described the ZOPFAN initiative as ‘ an idea that can not be underestimated ’ . |