Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] past few weeks " in BNC.

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1 Pressure from the people , and from the French government , has in the past few weeks nudged some neighbouring West African dictatorships the same way .
2 I wonder how many of them will fill their pages tomorrow or the day after in the way they have done in the past few weeks .
3 The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks .
4 ‘ All the money that Sheikh Osman has used in the past few weeks in his war against the Copts is money that you have given him . ’
5 Several other infinitely more damaging conversations involving him have been taped over the past few weeks .
6 ‘ Before I return to London , I 'd like to propose a strategy , should Elinor ever again be ill , to prevent the problems that Buzz has experienced during the past few weeks . ’
7 ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned .
8 ‘ I 've grown to realise over the past few weeks just how much the place really does mean to you , ’ he said quietly .
9 Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks !
10 Sorting machines incorporating microprocessors have been ordered in the past few weeks to upgrade rice , coffee and groundnuts .
11 He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks .
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