Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 2 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 3 | Strachan looked in a bad way ( hacked unforgivably from behind ) so maybe we 'll be seeing more of Rocky in the next few weeks . |
| 4 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |
| 5 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 6 | Thirty volunteers will be travelling to Croatia over the next few weeks , taking three operating theatres from St. Mary 's Hospital , Portsmouth with them . |
| 7 | All the same , rumblings of discontent have been detectable around Wantage Road over the past few weeks , prompting conjecture over a parting of the ways between Northamptonshire and their prized import , even though his contract still has a year to run . |
| 8 | With a Hong Kong stock market listing for P&O obtained last September , a new company , P&O Asia , is to be launched in Hong Kong within the next few weeks . |
| 9 | Nokia Oy 's Nokia Telecommunications says it has signed an agreement with Ukrainian Mobile Communications for the supply of switching and base station equipment for the Ukrainian NMT 450 cellular mobile telephone network : the network is to be launched commercially in Kiev in the next few weeks and will become available in two other major cities by the end of this year ; Ukrainian Mobile Communications is jointly owned by Ukrainian local operators , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV and Telecom Denmark Ltd . |
| 10 | About 1,500 East Germans who managed to reach Bonn 's embassy in Warsaw in the past few weeks have been sent to the West in two special trains . |
| 11 | Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy . |
| 12 | Following the pattern of local elections in France and Germany in the past few weeks , Italians have delivered a vote of no confidence in the parties that have governed since the war , notably the Christian Democrats . |
| 13 | Britain is to send four ships which took part in the Falklands War , to carry the desert rats to the Gulf : Sir Tristram , Sir Galahad , Sir Bevedere and er Sir Bedevere and Sir Percival are expected to start picking up tanks from West Germany in the next few weeks . |
| 14 | Mr Mitterrand praised the people of Leipzig for ‘ having written the history of Europe and Germany in the last few weeks ’ . |
| 15 | The shoes and boots will be shipped out to Bosnia within the next few weeks . |
| 16 | The breathtaking pace of political upheaval in Eastern Europe , the Baltic region and Transcaucasia in the last few weeks of the 1980s has naturally focused international attention on those parts of the Soviet empire lying to the west of the Ural mountains , including those countries which were allotted to Joseph Stalin 's ‘ sphere of influence ’ at the end of the Second World War . |
| 17 | REFLECTING the Scots ' growing influence in top level squash , five players — Mark Maclean , Peter Nicol , Derek Ritchie , Martin Heath and Emma Donaldson — will be on the trail of world-ranking points at events throughout Europe within the next few weeks . |
| 18 | The Queen , who is due to visit Balmoral in the next few weeks , was immediately informed of her mother 's condition . |
| 19 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 20 | The Welsh skipper faces an operation on his hernia tomorrow and will miss Wales 's big international clashes with England and France over the next few weeks . |
| 21 | Sir Hugh , in his first major interview for 12 months , said the 15 bombs the IRA has detonated in London over the past few weeks were comparatively minor . |
| 22 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 23 | Final reports from the six review bodies on cardiac , renal , neuro-science , cancer , child cardiac , plastic surgery specialisations are expected to be sent to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley in the next few weeks . |
| 24 | Mr Will will be learning Novell within the next few weeks for the Library LAN , and should be able to provide assistance if required from July onward . |
| 25 | The world speed trials are being staged here at Birkenhead over the next few weeks . |