Example sentences of "few week [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , Roger , so have I. Indeed , over the last few weeks since Ruthven 's death , I have been careful , wherever possible , to eat the same foods he did . |
| 3 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
| 4 | A few weeks after Shanti had joined the family , we took her to see Michael 's mother , both of us feeling a little nervous . |
| 5 | Mr Bangemann 's intervention comes only a few weeks after Mr Major accused the President of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , of sabotaging the pound . |
| 6 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 7 | The first few weeks after Michael came out of hospital were very difficult , for he was in much pain , could eat very little and could not sleep . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , a few weeks after Charlie had boarded the train for Edinburgh , I was offered a place at London University . |
| 9 | There 's been loud and strong protest over the past few weeks as parents have campaigned against the clinic claiming it presented a threat to their children 's well-being . |
| 10 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
| 11 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 12 | However , delay sowing for a few weeks if conditions are poor . |
| 13 | The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the next few weeks if BR must face corporate manslaughter charges over the disaster on December 12 which claimed 35 lives . |
| 14 | Analysts believe that the central bank , which cut interest rates by 1 percentage point last week in an attempt to stem the rise of the escudo , may be prepared to remove its barriers over the next few weeks if rate cuts staunch the flow of hot money into Lisbon . |