Example sentences of "[prep] a few weeks of [noun sg] " 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 All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life .
4 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 .
5 It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection .
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