Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [num ord] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 2 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 3 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 4 | It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place . |
| 5 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 6 | It was during the fifth week — Christmas and the New Year having passed with little to celebrate — that Charlie was put in charge of the duty roster for his own section . |
| 7 | The Feast of St Nicholas was in the first week of December ; a month away . |
| 8 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 9 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 10 | The last possible moment for a negotiated settlement was in the third week of September . |
| 11 | It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while . |
| 12 | But Noble was in the last week of his life , and proved too ill to see his favourite pupil or to hear read the letter of sympathy and comfort which Edward had sent him . |