Example sentences of "in recent weeks " in BNC.
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1 | I have tried the Theakston 's brewed at the Masham brewery in recent weeks , and can only comment that I prefer the Gallowgate product . |
2 | Later , Mr Springer said he had attended dozens of these meetings in recent weeks all over his district . |
3 | He has swum across , although he knows that more than a dozen escapers have drowned there in recent weeks and East German border guards are patrolling . |
4 | But despite all the authorities ' attempts to pretend that all goes well , the birthday celebrations are moving forward in the shadow of a public mood of national crisis , dramatised by the tens of thousands of East Germans struggling to flee to the West in recent weeks . |
5 | Crowds have demonstrated in growing numbers in recent weeks - up to 20,000 in Leipzig on Monday night , chanting ‘ Gorby ! |
6 | It is not just a matter of the tens of thousands who have streamed out of the country in recent weeks , via Budapest , Prague and Warsaw . |
7 | After the failed June 1953 uprising , crushed by Soviet tanks , ‘ people shut their eyes and looked away ’ , said Heiko , a 19-year-old factory worker , after a packed service in the Gethsemane church , in recent weeks a centre of opposition . |
8 | But the whispers in recent weeks have got louder . |
9 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
10 | His comments had an immediate impact on the City , where analysts have grown increasingly anxious in recent weeks about the risk that asset values may fall in the face of oversupply and forced sales of buildings . |
11 | The leader of the Janata Dal party , VP Singh , has found himself and his family under scrutiny in recent weeks over highly suspect allegations that his son controlled a secret bank-account in the Caribbean island of St Kitts . |
12 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
13 | The weather has not been kind to the river in recent weeks and today is no exception . |
14 | This proposal has gathered significant support in recent weeks from higher education chiefs and Tory think-tanks such as the Centre for Policy Studies . |
15 | Their home tie with Barford Tigers , a team who have had excellent results in the Midlands League in recent weeks , may require them to recover quickly from their overseas exertions . |
16 | Their home tie with Barford Tigers , a team who have had excellent results in the Midlands League in recent weeks , may require them to recover quickly from their overseas exertions . |
17 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
18 | Both phrases have been much invoked in recent weeks as in : ‘ Mulroney has driven the Last Spike into our National Dream . ’ |
19 | In recent weeks , however , it has been the sudden rise in the number of Soviet Jews that has alarmed the authorities . |
20 | And Allders , a chain of 11 stores that also operates duty-free shops in many of Britain 's airports , has been plagued by rumours of financial difficulty in recent weeks . |
21 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
22 | In recent weeks , the armed forces have shown renewed signs of unease . |
23 | In recent weeks stories ( strenuously denied ) have circulated of disagreements between the Fed 's chairman , Alan Greenspan , and the members of the committee that decides the Fed 's interest-rate policy : Mr Greenspan , it is said , is in more of a hurry to push rates down than are his colleagues . |
24 | But in recent weeks , Joey had seen Seth drunkenly leap off his balcony into his pool . |
25 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
26 | And , of course , the American army did liberate this south-western corner of Bohemia , though it is only in recent weeks that the new government has permitted the fact to be acknowledged . |
27 | TINY Rowland 's Lonrho is reliably understood to have tested the market in recent weeks about a possible sale of the Observer newspaper . |
28 | Instead , he tried something almost unheard-of in recent weeks : a really old-fashioned difficult question . |
29 | Joe Lydon 's impressive form at full-back , combined with an ability to play anywhere in the three-quarters , sees him make his third tour , while the man for whom he has deputised in recent weeks , Steve Hampson , goes on his first tour . |
30 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |