Example sentences of "a few weeks [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After a few weeks other problems appeared and the plaintiff sued for the cost of repairing them .
2 It would be a few weeks convalescent leave for the woman , and Bodie already had ideas as to how to help her spend the time .
3 They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence .
4 If none of these ideas is possible , would she be willing to spend a few weeks each year in a home for the elderly or , if she is infirm , in a nursing home or a local National Health Service hospital ?
5 Recorders and Assistant Recorders are senior barristers or solicitors who sit as judges a few weeks each year .
6 Recorders ( of whom there are over seven hundred , plus some five hundred Assistant Recorders ) are practising barristers or solicitors who are required to sit for a few weeks each year .
7 Though water is solid for much of the year , the annual thaw in spring and summer provides a wide range of aquatic habitats that support biological activity , and may even allow high productivity for a few weeks each year .
8 For a few weeks each autumn , conkers was the game in vogue .
9 At the same time he supposedly played really well in these matches and got an offer from Juve to stay with them for a few weeks this winter .
10 Most large towns in Britain with sizable Asian communities have three or four resident hakims , and an unknown number visit Britain from abroad to practise for a few weeks several times a year .
11 In an effore to pick a premium FFL squad , could someone send me the current ( or a few weeks old league table that was published recently ) as I seem to have got rid of it , and todays paper does n't have one in
12 Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season .
13 After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock .
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