Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a few weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 2 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 3 | The date of an election is now known until a few weeks before the event , when the prime minister recommends a dissolution of Parliament to the Queen . |
| 4 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 5 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 6 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
| 7 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |