Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] few weeks [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few weeks I was seldom off the toilet bowl myself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For the next few weeks they went out one late night after another — ‘ I do n't know how we survived , ’ says Robert . |
| 4 | For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office . |
| 5 | For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there . |
| 6 | For the next few weeks it seemed as though a genuine " United Front " would be established . |
| 7 | For the next few weeks she ploughed on , doing her normal writing , extolling the virtues of the firm 's products . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ During the last few weeks we have been to Kent for the filming . |
| 11 | DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS WE WERE IN PRÉFLEUR WE spoke little . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Within the next few weeks it is proposed , as a first step , to ban smoking in large areas of Wimpey offices . |
| 15 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
| 16 | In the next few weeks they spent a lot of time together . |
| 17 | Well , in the next few weeks I sang like a canary . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 22 | In eight innings in his new role as opener in the last few weeks he has totalled 451 runs . |
| 23 | In the last few weeks she became a local radio presenter . |
| 24 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Over the past few weeks she had come to the conclusion that the person she would most like to share her home was quiet , devoted Jenny . |
| 27 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 28 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 29 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 30 | erm from the evidence we 've looked at over the past few weeks you know I would say that |