Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] a [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
| 3 | ‘ I do , ’ I said , ‘ in my own ward and when I can special a patient right through , as I did my classic pneumonia girl in Hope a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | We had planned this after a brief look into Llanberis a few weeks previously . |
| 5 | Then there were the obituaries for Gottwald a few weeks later . |
| 6 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 7 | The pair were charged with illegal entry the charge used against Britons Paul Ride , who was arrested in the same area last June , and Martin Wainwright , who cycled into Iraq from Turkey a few weeks earlier . |
| 8 | I interviewed Mr Riverton in Helsinki a few weeks ago … ’ |
| 9 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 10 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 11 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
| 12 | OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads . |