Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] past few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The sale , to be announced within days , will be the Scottish group 's second deal in the past few weeks . |
| 4 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 5 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 6 | Could you just give me an impression of what 's happened in the aviation industry over the past few weeks , because I think I am right in saying that the number of people flying actually has been drastically reduced . |
| 7 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 8 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 9 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 11 | The suggestion is he has topped up his stake in the past few weeks when Grand Met 's shares have been weak , falling from 658p . |
| 12 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 13 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 14 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 15 | More useful than the rainstorms has been the steady drizzle over the past few weeks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The oldest Classic has come in for its usual share of criticism in the past few weeks , largely due to the disappointing number of entries . |
| 18 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 19 | Reassurance , warmth , sanity after the craziness and sadness of the past few weeks . |
| 20 | As we have had some rather rough news in the past few weeks , it is a real shot in the arm and the country will be grateful for the announcement . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | WITH all the generation of hot air in the past few weeks , one might ask what effect this will have on the ozone layer ? |
| 23 | As to economic support , one noticeable difference in the circumstances within the former Soviet Union over the past few weeks is that the price of a liberalisation programme has been put in place . |
| 24 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 25 | Mrs Phelps , who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks , now got up from her desk and went over to her . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Only current captain David Platt and Chris Woods come close to Walker with 29 and 27 caps under the beleaguered English boss and the Wednesday goalkeeper has also suffered an alarming dip in form in the past few weeks . |
| 28 | The subject has been discussed at length over the past few weeks on Usenet , the international electronic-mail ‘ noticeboard ’ ( see ‘ Taking Liberties ’ , NSS , 19 July 1991 ) . |
| 29 | Watford have improved a lot over the past few weeks . |
| 30 | He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks . |