Example sentences of "[art] few weeks [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 2 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 3 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 4 | A few weeks after the first officials went into the remote poppy valley , the charity began receiving visits from Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen and landlords demanding large sums in ‘ compensation ’ . |
| 5 | A few weeks after the technical group returned , a group of commercial and legal experts flew out to Russia . |
| 6 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 7 | She made a mental note to check the tariff later with the receptionist — there would be little point in living so comfortably for a few weeks if the bill swallowed most of her wages at the end of it . |
| 8 | The analyst can not hope to understand the business as well in a few weeks as the user does after many years . |
| 9 | Most found jobs within a few weeks and the longest any of them was unemployed was three months . |
| 10 | as if to mock us , Howe 's remarks preceded the release of the South Korean hostage Do Chae Sung by just a few weeks and the liberation of two French hostages by just over a month . |
| 11 | The man of the house told us that he had to repaint his boat every few weeks as the chemicals stripped it back to bare wood.And his wife complained of burns all up one arm from washing her clothes in contaminated water . |