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

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1 Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years .
2 The events of the past few weeks show that time has long gone .
3 She threaded her hands through his hair and kissed him back , and suddenly all the pent-up emotion of the past few weeks rushed up to engulf her .
4 Sorting machines incorporating microprocessors have been ordered in the past few weeks to upgrade rice , coffee and groundnuts .
5 About 1,500 East Germans who managed to reach Bonn 's embassy in Warsaw in the past few weeks have been sent to the West in two special trains .
6 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the opinion poll improvement in the past few weeks reflects not only our excellent policy range but the fact that the election is getting closer and the best is yet to come ?
7 Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave .
8 Pressure from the people , and from the French government , has in the past few weeks nudged some neighbouring West African dictatorships the same way .
9 Co-ordinated attacks on security officials and politicians over the past few weeks indicate that the once-bumbling extremists are growing more sophisticated .
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