Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few weeks [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence . |
| 2 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After a few weeks in Blackpool , Marjorie was overjoyed when sent to America to join the Lollipop Troupe for a year . |
| 5 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 6 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 7 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 8 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 9 | Advice on living arrangements in the few weeks before departure may be necessary . |
| 10 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 11 | A majority of Democrats , however , having accepted budget cuts of $7,000 million in 1991 , were unprepared to make another round of even deeper cuts within a few weeks of state elections . |
| 12 | Their room at school , within a few weeks of Katherine arrival , had by a few deft touches and additions acquired a new look . |
| 13 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 14 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 15 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 16 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
| 17 | It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection . |
| 18 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 19 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 20 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |