Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] a [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks . |
| 3 | Having used the preamp for a few weeks now I have got bored with the presets and want to start using it to create some more familiar sounds . |
| 4 | 1981 : The year of medley madness — over 20 arrive in the shops within a few weeks , the tally including ‘ Stars On 45 Vols 1 & 2 ’ , ‘ Hollie Daze ’ , ‘ Beach Boy Gold ’ , ‘ A Tribute To The Punks Of '76 ’ and a ‘ Supremes Medley ’ . |
| 5 | The next election will be lost or won not as the result of a few weeks ' electioneering , of media events , of soundbites , but as a result of four years of radical but sensible campaigning in our towns and villages . |
| 6 | We have our little rule book and we let a woman come into the Guild for a few weeks and then she 's told the rules . |
| 7 | The sergeant 's parting shot was , ‘ I suppose you 'll be in the desert in a few weeks ’ time disguised as a Bedouin . ’ |
| 8 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
| 9 | In any event , it is surely wrong , for the sake of a few weeks , to decide on the principle of the Bill by giving it a Second Reading while hon. Members still do not have the Stoner report . |
| 10 | The state of the market can be ascertained by visiting a number of shops and auctions over the period of a few weeks , and carefully noting the prices . |
| 11 | The additional energy they enjoyed after following the diet for a few weeks helped them to take on a much more positive attitude towards life — I could sense a really happy attitude in the remarks on the questionnaires . |
| 12 | It was agreed with the Prince that the interview would take place at Broadlands where he would be staying with the Brabournes in a few weeks ' time . |
| 13 | This is how the new Thorp two seat trainer will really look when it goes on sale in the UK in a few weeks ' time . |
| 14 | We will know the details in a few weeks ’ time . |
| 15 | It is hoped that volunteers can start work on preparing the ground in a few weeks time . |
| 16 | The fry remain in the streams for a few weeks , feeding on the flush of insects and crustaceans that appear in the warming waters . |
| 17 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 18 | By the end of January , most people will have left a trail of broken New Year Resolutions in their wake , resuming all of their bad habits within the space of a few weeks . |
| 19 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
| 20 | A family who are believed to have raided five jewellers ' shops in the space of a few weeks are being hunted by police . |
| 21 | The telegraph now allowed instantaneous communication with the farthest reaches o the empire , while the steamship brought everywhere in the world within a few weeks ' sail of home . |
| 22 | BR hopes to officially launch the scheme in a few weeks . |
| 23 | He cleared out with the deposits after a few weeks . |
| 24 | On Hicks 's death in 1869 the business was taken over by G. R. Crickmay of Weymouth and , with the exception of a few weeks in 1870 spent in London with John Raphael Brandon , architect of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Gordon Square , Hardy worked intermittently with Crickmay in Dorchester and Weymouth until 1872 . |
| 25 | A stranger who enters the land for a few weeks solely to do some work on it does not fall into this category . " |
| 26 | The Ethiopian army , the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa , consists largely of press-ganged young peasants or unemployed urban teenagers who have been drafted to the front after a few weeks ' training . |
| 27 | DEC last week reversed a decision of a few weeks standing not to put OSF/1 on future MIPS machines ( UX No 386 ) and reverted to an earlier strategy that will — see front page . |
| 28 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 29 | ‘ My life can only be a question of a few weeks . |
| 30 | The duration of obstructive symptoms varied widely with a range from a few weeks to several years . |