Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] few weeks " in BNC.
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1 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
2 | The sporting world is full of fairy tales … but if the name of Samantha Raeisi ever reaches the headlines its going to be quite a story … she 's from Swindon … she 's a mum … she 's a model … and a few years ago she was given just a few weeks to live … |
3 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
4 | The special Christmas shopping service , which will be hauled by British Rail diesel power direct from Butterley Station via Nottingham , Beeston and Loughborough to London , was announced only a few weeks ago and is already nearly full . |
5 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
6 | Pretty girls moved through McIllvanney 's life at an astonishing rate , though the last , who had endured a record six months , had left just a few weeks before . |
7 | This will bring an early return to Cleveland Park for Darlington-based Paul Bentley who was signed just a few weeks ago by the Midlands club from Boro . |
8 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |