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

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1 The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation .
2 In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely .
3 An infection in a baby in the first few weeks of life can cause mental handicap , especially if the baby is premature .
4 Children may be given tetanus vaccination in the first few weeks of life and its importance is underlined by its inclusion in the primary recommended vaccination schedules which begins at two months .
5 Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life .
6 Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks .
7 In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks .
8 ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . )
9 1 Pain and discomfort in the first few weeks after surgery .
10 1 Pain and discomfort in the first few weeks after surgery .
11 A minor difficulty in the first few weeks was the shortage of outer red nylon bags for infected or fouled linen caused by greater use of the appropriate inner bags and the reminder about colour codes .
12 He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government .
13 The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects .
14 People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine .
15 For example Marie , a student at B who , in the first few weeks of term , felt herself to be getting behind with work , was concerned about the lack of help provided by the department :
16 A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because :
17 This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week .
18 Many children develop allergies in the first few weeks or months of life , and often these improve as the years go by .
19 Here is a sample from conversation with two psychologists , the topic of conversation being the linguistic difficulties — particularly , the intrusions of completely unwanted and irrelevant words — KC experienced in the first few weeks after his stroke .
20 Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs .
21 Colourful pictures give your baby something to focus on — tape a smiling fact inside the cot in the first few weeks .
22 The only significant leisure effect comes from the effect having receiving benefits disallowed in the first few weeks of the unemployment spell .
23 I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes .
24 What happens in is you do have the people in that area in the first few weeks .
25 But when no announcements of conclusive victory emerged in the following few weeks , people began — as was reported towards the end of October — to express their impatience that the struggle for Stalingrad was taking too long and costing too many lives .
26 In the next few weeks , as the seasons change in eastern Europe and central Asia , spectacular colonies of painted storks will descend on the lakes and marshes of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan .
27 But the undertone was exceedingly fragile , with many traders prepared to bank on the FT-SE falling below 2,200 points in the next few weeks unless the 15 per cent rates do turn out to be just a short-lived shock .
28 The results of the survey , which will include a national poll , will be known to senior police officers in the next few weeks , but will not be made public until early in the new year .
29 In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution .
30 ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’
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