Example sentences of "a few weeks [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July , a few weeks before she died , Katherine started High Court proceedings against Mr Egan and his publishing house for breach of copyright . |
| 2 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 3 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 4 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 5 | A few weeks before he left Iran , the Shah had asked one of the most respected members of the opposition that he had crushed in the fifties to try to form a government . |
| 6 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 7 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 8 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 9 | Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in . |
| 10 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 11 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 12 | A few weeks before I could n't have found Madeira on a map — now what I saw made me vow to return every year . |
| 13 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 14 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 15 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 16 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |
| 17 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 18 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 19 | Her mother died when Mary was eighteen , just a few weeks after she had married and moved away from home . |
| 20 | The answer seems to be that a female cat sometimes experiences a ‘ false heat ’ a few weeks after she has given birth . |
| 21 | Well weeks went by and then a a a few weeks after she came to me and she said , . |
| 22 | IN A SPEECH a few weeks after he became Conservative Party chairman , Chris Patten developed an interesting thesis about this election . |
| 23 | I 'm sure that Jack himself ( who did n't really exploit its potential ) would defer to the earlier use of the model by Jet Harris , who recorded with it as early as April 1962 , a few weeks after he had left The Shadows . |
| 24 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 25 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 26 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 27 | ‘ Just a few weeks after I left the ship it was sunk by our own Typhoon fighters with the loss of 56 lives , ’ said Mr Connor , whose son , Paul , saw front-line action as a medic in the Gulf War . |
| 28 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 29 | But jobs were hard to find and he decided not to resign then but to wait a few weeks until he found another job . |
| 30 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |