Example sentences of "be [vb pp] a [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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1 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
2 | In a statement , the company said : All Meon Villas are inspected a few weeks prior to the start of each letting season , with particular emphasis on safety . |
3 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
4 | Sites at Ballyhannon have caused the greatest furore , with five acres being sold a few weeks ago for £250,000 . |
5 | For example , in the UK the average period between the ex dividend date and payment of the dividend is fifty three days , while the dividend is announced a few weeks before the ex dividend date ( Yadav and Pope , 1992b ) . |
6 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |
7 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
8 | ‘ When the draw for the quarter-final was made a few weeks ago , I was delighted at being paired with Derry City ’ he declared . |
9 | The response from designers and knitters included plenty of suggestions for improvement in the basic shapes and version 2 of Designaknit was born a few weeks later . |
10 | For although Britain , France , Germany and Italy had guaranteed the frontiers of that country ( minus the Sudetenland ) at that same conference , the Czech Republic was fragmented a few weeks later , and by the following March Germany had completed her design by totally absorbing an independent state . |
11 | The move followed a visit to Singapore in August by the Chinese Premier , Li Peng [ see p. 37656 ] , and the renewal that month of China 's diplomatic relations with Indonesia , and was followed a few weeks later by a visit by Lee Kuan Yew to China [ see p. 37780 ] . |
12 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
13 | An open audition was advertised a few weeks later and Carl beat over 900 other young hopefuls singing Hole in the Ground , a song popularised by Bernard Cribbins . |
14 | It is understood that Mr Dunn 's position became untenable when GEC-Ferranti 's initial budget for the coming year — which revealed the extent of the cost overrun — was rejected a few weeks ago by Derek Dickinson , chief executive of GEC-Marconi Avionics , the division to which GEC-Ferranti belongs . |
15 | One young man was killed a few weeks before the Armistice . |
16 | But that particular day she did n't know beforehand , this was planned a few weeks in advance as you can imagine . |
17 | The last race in the series was held a few weeks ago near Gifford in which he was placed fifth . |