Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a few weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 3 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 4 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 5 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 6 | In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months , depending on the whim of the Sheriff . |
| 7 | The date of an election is now known until a few weeks before the event , when the prime minister recommends a dissolution of Parliament to the Queen . |
| 8 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 9 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 10 | Victoria 's open face , freckled from a few weeks in the Mediterranean sun , was clouded with bewilderment . |
| 11 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 12 | Here she continues : ‘ A Mr. Lewis , an historic painter from London , come for a few weeks on a jaunt of pleasure , played on the piano for us . |
| 13 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 14 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 15 | Courses can last from a few weeks to several months depending on what you want to achieve . |
| 16 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
| 17 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 18 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |
| 19 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |
| 20 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |