Example sentences of "of [noun] a few weeks " in BNC.
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1 | It was widely rumoured that when the party leader , Klement Gottwald , died , in March 1953 , it was from grief at the death of Stalin a few weeks earlier . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
4 | That calm , matter-of-fact voice belonged to Jack Swigert , the command module pilot , who survived that close call but died of cancer a few weeks ago . |
5 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |