Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 2 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 3 | Anyway , it 's only for a few weeks , you said . |
| 4 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 5 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 6 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 7 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 8 | Just for a few weeks . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 11 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 12 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 've heard in fac er in my factory , I 've heard it in other places , right , when a temporary l temporary or casual worker goes down the road , or a part-timer work 's cut short , ah it 's only a casual and he only expected to be here for a few weeks . |
| 15 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 16 | Not even for a few weeks . |
| 17 | The analyst can not hope to understand the business as well in a few weeks as the user does after many years . |
| 18 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
| 20 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ said Li Shai Tung , brightening , ‘ why not take Jelka there for a few weeks ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 23 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 24 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 25 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 26 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 27 | Yet after a few weeks , during which time only parts of the north of England and the borders had risen on the Pretender 's behalf , the rebellion was put down . |
| 28 | ‘ If you agree to my helping you in that direction , then we 'll look at this situation again in a few weeks , when you 'll hopefully be in a more stable state of mind . ’ |
| 29 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |