Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 2 | A training allowance and travelling expenses for the 16 weeks of the programme . |
| 3 | Yesterday Concord Posterlink , Britain 's largest outdoor space-buying agency , put the cost of the political ‘ poster-opportunities ’ at almost £3 million for the four weeks of the campaign . |
| 4 | The combined spend by political parties on posters of £2.7m accounts for 17 per cent of all monies spent on roadside advertising for the four weeks before the election . |
| 5 | For the two weeks before every boat race , the home of Heather Boxer becomes the Oxford headquarters . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a recovery , ’ said chairman Sir Ian MacLaurin , announcing profits up by 31 p.c. to £545m before tax for the 53 weeks to February 29 . |
| 7 | The company is not making a profit forecast , but profits for the 36 weeks to 9 January have grown to £9.79 million . |
| 8 | For the three weeks of rehearsals before the production opened in Edinburgh , he moved out of his Wimbledon home and stayed in a small hotel room , away from his wife and children . |
| 9 | For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant . |
| 10 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 11 | ‘ There will be enough wages to keep you all for a few weeks at least , until you have a chance to find another situation . |
| 12 | For a few weeks at a time , staff and Library visitors will be able to see a succession of paintings from this talented group . |
| 13 | They 'll work in France for a few weeks at a time staying in hotels . |
| 14 | Here she continues : ‘ A Mr. Lewis , an historic painter from London , come for a few weeks on a jaunt of pleasure , played on the piano for us . |
| 15 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 16 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 17 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 18 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 19 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 20 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 21 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 22 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |