Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [num ord] few weeks " in BNC.

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1 But neither had the rancour of the last few weeks been dissolved .
2 Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him .
3 They had spent half an hour with the President , the Director sitting back and letting Rostov take him through all the details of the last few weeks .
4 Though the trial was over , the strain of the last few weeks was still affecting both of them .
5 In his acceptance speech Mr Kinnock paid an emotional tribute to his wife , Glenys , for her support under the pressure of the last few weeks .
6 ( 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 . )
7 I am simply going to sit in his studio for perhaps three hours for the mornings of the next few weeks and Murphy shall take me and bring me back and Lyddy shall sit close by me and I will take Janet too if you would allow me — ’
8 Mute , drunken dislike was easier than the cold hatred of the last few weeks .
9 Beset by illness — with Gooch himself the most damaging victim of the last few weeks — and bemused by Indian spin , England must pull themselves together if a bitterly disappointing tour is not to become a total disaster .
10 For , whilst we all wish to see democratic government in South Africa and recognise the role played by the restoration of sporing links in achieving those aims , events of the last few weeks confirm that the country is still very unstable .
11 Says Lee : ‘ I have never lost my affection for Manchester City where I spent so many happy years during the club 's successful period , and like so many others I have been disturbed by the events of the last few weeks . ’
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