Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few weeks [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
| 2 | For the first few weeks I was seldom off the toilet bowl myself . |
| 3 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 4 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 5 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 6 | For the next few weeks they went out one late night after another — ‘ I do n't know how we survived , ’ says Robert . |
| 7 | For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office . |
| 8 | For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there . |
| 9 | For the next few weeks it seemed as though a genuine " United Front " would be established . |
| 10 | For the next few weeks she ploughed on , doing her normal writing , extolling the virtues of the firm 's products . |
| 11 | But it was not now so easy to get rid of Anselm : he refused either to comply with Henry 's demand or leave the country , and for the next few weeks he lived quietly on his manors . |
| 12 | That is why during the next few weeks we shall be embarked on considering the extent to which we can change it to the benefit of all . |
| 13 | During the next few weeks my fortunes took a more propitious turn . |
| 14 | ‘ During the last few weeks we have been to Kent for the filming . |
| 15 | DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS WE WERE IN PRÉFLEUR WE spoke little . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The White House spokesman , Mr Marlin Fitzwater , said yesterday that the troops would stay for ‘ as long as it takes , ’ while a subdued Defence Secretary , Mr Dick Cheney , added : ‘ Within the next few weeks we 'll be able to meet the objectives . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Within the next few weeks it is proposed , as a first step , to ban smoking in large areas of Wimpey offices . |
| 19 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 20 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 21 | In the next few weeks they spent a lot of time together . |
| 22 | Well , in the next few weeks I sang like a canary . |
| 23 | And tragically , in the past few weeks we have seen the US and its Allies carry out over 44,000 sorties over a period of 20 days against the people of Iraq . |
| 24 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 25 | Can I just ask you , in the past few weeks we 've all heard , and in fact I 've cited some figures in this programme , that , you know , people have been staying away . |
| 26 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 27 | In eight innings in his new role as opener in the last few weeks he has totalled 451 runs . |
| 28 | In the last few weeks she became a local radio presenter . |
| 29 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 30 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |