Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] few weeks " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back .
3 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 .
4 In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks .
5 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 .
6 ‘ My life can only be a question of a few weeks .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 One school suddenly lost some of its best students over a period of a few weeks .
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 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 .
12 Life , for the short space of a few weeks , was better than she had ever known it .
13 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 .
14 One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports
15 A family who are believed to have raided five jewellers ' shops in the space of a few weeks are being hunted by police .
16 A swift wartime courtship , a deep passionate love of a few weeks , then marriage , separation and death .
17 I stayed until the measles epidemic was over , a matter of a few weeks , and then joined him with Tim in Poona .
18 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 ?
19 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 .
20 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 .
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