Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] weeks ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Thirteen patients were studied before and after 2–12 weeks ' treatment with metronidazole 800 mg/day , while maintaining an unchanged NSAID intake .
2 When the client 's employers stop paying salary after thirteen weeks ' absence through ill-health .
3 After three weeks ' detention in military barracks Daniel Omara Atubu and the 17 others — including three other DP members who hold government posts — were accused of treason .
4 After three weeks ' honeymoon in Mentone , they returned to London where Eliot succumbed to bronchitis .
5 In a recently published pilot study , however , a H pylori eradication rate of 80% was achieved after two weeks ' treatment with omeprazole ( 40 mg ) and the new macrolide antibiotic clarithromycin ( 500 mg three times daily ) .
6 After seven weeks ' work on the part of many army personnel , we were ready to begin .
7 The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions .
8 Just as for a play , Nichols had the luxury of three weeks ' rehearsal on The Graduate before shooting began on location in Los Angeles , Berkeley and San Francisco .
9 Significant rises in audit fees were recorded at : Guinness ( +30% ) , where turnover rose 16% to £4,067m ; Williams Holdings ( +30% ) , where profits included a contribution of 42 weeks ' trading for major acquisition Yale & Valor ; Burmah Castrol ( +18% ) ; Rank Organisation ( +33% ) , where turnover jumped to £2,114m ( v £1,333m ) after inclusion of a full year from major acquisition Mecca Leisure ; and Rentokil ( +19% ) where pretax profits rose by 27% .
10 We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g .
11 During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war .
12 He was a tall , thin man with knotty muscles and a thin , high-cheek-boned face , his chin at the moment covered with ten weeks ' growth of beard .
13 And Rodger has only just come back from three weeks ' rehabilitation at Lilleshall .
14 The Cabinet met on Tuesday 11 December and unanimously approved of Baldwin 's decision that the government meet Parliament in five weeks ' time on 15 January .
15 But despite the ‘ scariest moment ’ of his life , James said he would be back in action in four weeks ' time at the Dundrod 150 .
16 Tony Stafford talks to the former owner of Vernons Pools who is hoping for a jackpot dividend in two weeks ' time with Rodrigo de Triano and Musicale
17 They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations .
18 Patients were then randomly allocated , in balanced blocks of four , to six weeks ' treatment with either diuretic plus slow release nifedipine 20 mg twice daily or diuretic plus propranolol 80 mg twice daily .
19 If a union complains to an industrial tribunal of failure by the employer to consult , the employer may be liable for a compensation award of up to two weeks ' pay per employee affected with a week 's salary being limited to £184 .
20 By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months .
21 He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively .
22 The figure shows the prospective risk of stillbirth at 23–42 weeks ' gestation for all births in Japan and the cumulative percentage of stillbirths .
23 I discuss induction of labour at 42 weeks ' gestation in an otherwise uncomplicated pregnancy and offer it if the cervix is favourable and the woman keen to be delivered .
24 A big turnout of diminutive Dexters dominated the dairy cow classes at last weeks ' East of England Show at Peterborough .
25 The risk decreased by 39 weeks ' gestation to about 1.1 per 1000 ( 1 in 909 ) .
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