Example sentences of "a [adj] weeks [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 2 | A majority of Democrats , however , having accepted budget cuts of $7,000 million in 1991 , were unprepared to make another round of even deeper cuts within a few weeks of state elections . |
| 3 | All she needs is a few weeks of expert tuition . ’ |
| 4 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 5 | Now , however , she was dying of tuberculosis and , with only a few weeks of life left , the past was very much on her mind . |
| 6 | After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence . |
| 7 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 8 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 9 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 10 | It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection . |
| 11 | Even at the seven year mark there would be very little expectation of more than a few weeks on parole licence in the community , instead of prison . |
| 12 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 13 | Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al . |
| 14 | One day , a few weeks after Granny 's funeral , Mary came home earlier than usual from work . |
| 15 | A few weeks after infection with several hundred L3 a clinical syndrome of fever , inappetence and dullness occurs sometimes accompanied by colic . |
| 16 | The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester . |
| 17 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance . |
| 20 | But that particular day she did n't know beforehand , this was planned a few weeks in advance as you can imagine . |
| 21 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 22 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |