Example sentences of "only [verb] a few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 2 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 3 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 4 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 5 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 6 | ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends . |
| 7 | I only had a few weeks . |
| 8 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 9 | Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that . |
| 10 | The government said that fuel supplies would only last a few weeks , but that meat and butter would run out within days . |