Example sentences of "a few weeks of [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 . |