Example sentences of "the [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blood tests have to be conducted during the 16th–18th weeks of the pregnancy , and therefore depend on the mother knowing , with some accuracy , the date of her last menstrual period . |
| 2 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 3 | Although many authorities can deal with routine applications within the eight weeks allowed to them , applications raising major issues and those dealing with large construction programmes , are extremely unlikely to be dealt with in anything like that period ( statistics on the length of time taken by local authorities in dealing with applications are produced regularly by the Department of the Environment ) . |
| 4 | SSP1(L) Form ( this is issued to you by your current employer if you have received Statutory Sick Pay in the eight weeks prior to your leaving date ) . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's trapped … and facing one of the toughest weeks of his life ’ |
| 6 | Major , meanwhile , faces one of the toughest weeks of his life before his party conference in Brighton next week . |
| 7 | They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’ |
| 8 | Although you will not be able to take your puppy out for a walk in public places until it has completed its course of inoculation , at about 12 weeks old , the intervening weeks up to this point will be useful in familiarizing the dog with walking on a leash . |
| 9 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 10 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 11 | How had she managed to survive the intervening weeks when this was what she was made for ? |
| 12 | He had slipped from my mind during the preoccupations of the intervening weeks . |
| 13 | And carry on just as if er we were proceeding immediately after the proposed excellent introduction and as if the intervening weeks just had n't occurred . |
| 14 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 15 | The basis on which our miners receive redundancy pay is based on the 12 weeks prior to being made redundant . ’ |
| 16 | Current trading is erm current trading is improving and I would say that er that the last three weeks have been the strongest weeks this year . |
| 17 | With the aid of many ‘ outside ’ advisers , both professional and amateur , we scrutinised them all in the 2 weeks of sorting . |
| 18 | ‘ I just love the 20–30 weeks period of pregnancy , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a recovery , ’ said chairman Sir Ian MacLaurin , announcing profits up by 31 p.c. to £545m before tax for the 53 weeks to February 29 . |
| 20 | This appears in the annual report and accounts for the 53 weeks ended 2 May 1992 . |
| 21 | For the 53 weeks ended 3 May 1992 , Scottish and Newcastle adopts beer , retail and leisure as separate classes of business for its segmental analysis . |
| 22 | Overall turnover rose 8.3 per cent in the 53 weeks to 2 January to top £1 billion for the first time . |
| 23 | Pre-tax profits rose 14.5 per cent to £39.2 million , though turnover in the 53 weeks to 1 January , 1993 was almost static at £424.8 million , even after including currency effects , £23 million from Weir Floway , acquired in the US in January last year , and the extra week of business . |
| 24 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 25 | Advice on living arrangements in the few weeks before departure may be necessary . |
| 26 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 27 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 28 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 29 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |