Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [art] few 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
9 | A family who are believed to have raided five jewellers ' shops in the space of a few weeks are being hunted by police . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ My life can only be a question of a few weeks . |
13 | Work-shadowing , whereby a student follows a business person during her normal work routines over a period of a few weeks is becoming increasingly commonplace in the UK . |
14 | One school suddenly lost some of its best students over a period of a few weeks . |
15 | I stayed until the measles epidemic was over , a matter of a few weeks , and then joined him with Tim in Poona . |
16 | Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ? |
17 | What they 've done in a matter of a few weeks is put together a data bank of information that 's colossal , and they 're dealing with an enormous amount of , of distress and problems . |