Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] past [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 2 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 3 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 4 | A dozen cars have been stolen and set ablaze in the past six weeks — the last incident nearly led to hundreds of acres of trees being destroyed . |
| 5 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 6 | Sutton Borough Council , the local authority , lost 25,000 trees during the storm of 1987 and is furious at losing several hundred more in the past four weeks to BR chainsaws . |
| 7 | She had done enough of that over the past few weeks , and had found that it led nowhere . |
| 8 | The outlook for Ukraine has been more cheerful in the past few weeks . |
| 9 | ONE important women 's issue has gone unnoticed in the past few weeks — the hemline question . |
| 10 | Rigney has been training quietly on his own over the past few weeks and believes that he will be back in action in the New Year for Greystones . |
| 11 | Paul Davison , director of strategic development at Rosyth , said he had become increasingly optimistic over the past few weeks . |
| 12 | Neither can the fact that the bagpipes of the various regimental associations and lobby groups were remarkably silent over the past few weeks . |