Example sentences of "a few week [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At least , with Micky there , we can fill a few weeks of punters coming in to watch him dry . |
| 4 | All she needs is a few weeks of expert tuition . ’ |
| 5 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 6 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 7 | Now , however , she was dying of tuberculosis and , with only a few weeks of life left , the past was very much on her mind . |
| 8 | After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence . |
| 9 | Their room at school , within a few weeks of Katherine arrival , had by a few deft touches and additions acquired a new look . |
| 10 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 11 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 12 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 13 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 14 | It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection . |
| 15 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 16 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
| 17 | Even at the seven year mark there would be very little expectation of more than a few weeks on parole licence in the community , instead of prison . |
| 18 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 19 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 20 | Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al . |
| 21 | One day , a few weeks after Granny 's funeral , Mary came home earlier than usual from work . |
| 22 | A few weeks after Tobermory 's death an elephant escaped from the Dresden Zoo and killed an English visitor . |
| 23 | A few weeks after infection with several hundred L3 a clinical syndrome of fever , inappetence and dullness occurs sometimes accompanied by colic . |
| 24 | The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester . |
| 25 | A few weeks after Burghley 's death one Dr James was paid by the Privy Council to remove the Lord Treasurer 's papers from his house : the great collections at Hatfield and in the Lansdowne MSS show how limited was his success ; and later efforts by Thomas Wilson to establish a state paper office during the reign of James I seem also to have been largely vain . |
| 26 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 27 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 28 | Carmen was first performed in Paris in 1875 , a few weeks before Bizet 's early death . |
| 29 | In the event , this official reformation was both rapid and radical , but up until just a few weeks before Henry 's death it had by no means been inevitable . |
| 30 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |