Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the past few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | On behalf of the 400 men from Sherwood who work at Gedling , I thank my hon. Friend for his endless time and effort , not only during the past few weeks but over years , to keep that colliery open . |
| 2 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 3 | He took out the slim dossier on Mikhail Vologsky which he had been able to put together over the past few weeks . |
| 4 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 5 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |