Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few weeks in " in BNC.
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1 | After a few weeks in Blackpool , Marjorie was overjoyed when sent to America to join the Lollipop Troupe for a year . |
2 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
3 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
6 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
7 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
8 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
9 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
10 | Under constantly damp conditions pellets decay very rapidly ( see next section ) , within a few weeks in the case of tawny owl and eagle owl pellets , although rather longer in some species like the barn owl . |
11 | Victoria 's open face , freckled from a few weeks in the Mediterranean sun , was clouded with bewilderment . |
12 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |