Example sentences of "a few weeks [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later Churchill put him in charge of organizing the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) , charged with ‘ setting Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 2 | A few weeks later Perdita sat under a jacaranda tree which was scattering purply-blue petals all over the parched brown ground . |
| 3 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 4 | A few weeks later Masters of Notts went into voluntary liquidation , paying twenty shillings in the pound as Father had said they would . |
| 5 | Then Carter went on to add phrase that was to haunt him as , only a few weeks later riots and disaffection began to unfold across the country and within twelve months led to the fall of the Shah . |
| 6 | A few weeks later Mr Walker told Ruth of a premonition that he had had the previous night — it was identical to Mr Reynolds ' . |
| 7 | ‘ A few weeks later Thomas was shot . |
| 8 | A few weeks later Kee was in the garden outside his house . |
| 9 | A few weeks later John asked the notorious rock manager Allen Klein to do the same . |
| 10 | A few weeks later Edward wrote to his brother King George . |
| 11 | A few weeks ago Roberta Smith of the New York Times wrote an article expressing a certain degree of ennui over the new decade 's proliferation of ‘ installation art ’ — but it does n't seem to have done much to stem the tide . |
| 12 | ‘ A few weeks ago Middlesbrough were 20–1 for the championship . |
| 13 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 14 | Only a few weeks ago things had seemed bleak , but now the board was filling nicely with his plays . |
| 15 | Just a few weeks ago Safet was re-united with his mother , wife , and the daughter he had never seen , Emina . |
| 16 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 17 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
| 18 | Asked about whether she thought nationalist tensions would resurface in any significant way , Vera explained : ‘ A few weeks ago Havel said that the word ‘ socialist' ’ would have to be removed from our country 's name . |
| 19 | A FEW weeks ago TeleClub featured Kristian Schmid ( Todd in ‘ Neighbours ’ ) and how he was looking for a boy or girl from Northern Ireland to join his Steel Can Recycling Board . |
| 20 | After getting physically very weak as the result of being unable to eat without extreme discomfort , a few weeks ago Molly was admitted to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital Great Ormond Street where doctors found and dealt with a severe restriction in her stomach . |
| 21 | But just a few weeks ago Keith Atkinson from Malvern in Worcestershire won the right to sue Oxfordshire Health Authority . |