Example sentences of "only [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's only eleven weeks , and I 'm not an obstetrician , so my experience with doing this is a little rusty . |
| 2 | Using ski poles to take some weight off his knees , operated on only eight weeks before , 53-year-old Nathaniel Grew led Team Costa Rica into the tiny village of St Gerrardo . |
| 3 | Only eight weeks into the job , Mr Gerstner is still concocting a rescue plan . |
| 4 | Only eight weeks before the sale , Christie 's announced that sixty-six drawings were to be auctioned without first being offered to any national institution by their owner , Viscount Coke . |
| 5 | It was only eight weeks since we had left Aubagne yet there was a difference in the way in which we behaved and in which we saw ourselves . |
| 6 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |
| 7 | YOU CAN BUILD A FANTASTIC POWER PACKED BODY IN ONLY 12 WEEKS ! |
| 8 | The entire courtship was only 12 weeks long so Jim is now hoping to find time to get to know Sara better . |
| 9 | They had a son , who survived only twenty-one weeks , and a daughter . |
| 10 | The cows were inside for most of the year , being out for only 4–6 weeks . |
| 11 | A 10% cut in benefits brings down his expected duration by only 0.1 weeks . |
| 12 | After 8–10 weeks , when an inch or two of growth has appeared ( prepared bulbs should need only six weeks ) , the containers can be brought indoors . |
| 13 | He has been only six weeks at the helm . |
| 14 | Richard Gough will make his comeback for Rangers tomorrow only six weeks after shattering his jaw in four places . |
| 15 | Would it not have been a pipedream only six weeks ago to think that the Berlin Wall would be knocked down ? ’ |
| 16 | Richard Gough will make his comeback for Rangers tomorrow only six weeks after shattering his jaw in four places . |
| 17 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 18 | With only six weeks to run before the 1987 general election , the NIREX plans were unceremoniously junked . |
| 19 | His wife , Mary , accompanied him on his early forays , but in 1862 , while travelling on the Zambezi , she caught a fever and died , worn out by the privations of travel and child bearing — her fifth child was born under a camel thorn bush on a trek through arid wastes of the interior ; her fourth child , born on an earlier trek , had lived only six weeks . |
| 20 | At his funeral Rev Leslie had to offer his arm as well as his heart to the young lady , who only six weeks previously he had married to Ivor . |
| 21 | Only six weeks before , the Germans had said they had no claim on the city . |
| 22 | Ranger Smith , 21 , the first member of his regiment to die while on active service , was due to leave the Army only six weeks after the blast . |
| 23 | Only six weeks ago at the Tory Party conference he promised categorically that his spending total would not be ‘ breached ’ . |
| 24 | Only six weeks after her confinement , the Mozarts set out for Salzburg to visit Leopold , a visit promised ever since their marriage but continually put off , much to Leopold 's annoyance . |
| 25 | Three people died when tornadoes howled through the sunshine state 's west coast — only six weeks after Hurricane Andrew killed 40 people and flattened thousands of homes south of Miami . |
| 26 | In a tour of only six weeks , the AHA working party concluded that the short-stay admission facilities of the new DGH units , then just established at the Whittington , Royal Free and University College Hospitals , were just about sufficient for the treatment in the catchment areas for the future . |
| 27 | Only six weeks after making their solemn covenant-pledge with God the people are clamouring for a replica of the old gods of Egypt . |
| 28 | Liz was at this stage engrossed by the dramatic , blinding , smoky disaster of her own marriage , which after only six weeks managed to transform herself and Edgar into mockeries of their former selves , loud puppets mouthing insults on an unreal battlefield . |
| 29 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 30 | Because his mother died from peritonitis when he was only six weeks old , Keyes was brought up in Dartford by his paternal grandparents , and his grandfather , Sidney Kilworth Keyes , a wealthy farmer , dominated his childhood . |