Example sentences of "within a [adj] weeks [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Within a few weeks of their meeting , England was at war . |
2 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
3 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
4 | Within a few weeks of the outbreak of war , the Luftwaffe had a new name for the east coast of Scotland where the skies were patrolled by the young men of the City of Glasgow Squadron , and its leaders , Wing Commander Farquhar , Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton , and Squadron Leader Johnstone . |
5 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
6 | Within a few weeks of the payout , Mr Curtis claimed , £1 million had vanished from their Inca Gemstones company , and been partly used for ‘ unlawful or improper purposes , ’ hidden from shareholders . |
7 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
8 | Within a few weeks of setting eyes on Judith he had managed to supersede Zacharias in her affections , and the three had dwindled to a blissful two . |
9 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
10 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
11 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
12 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
13 | Their room at school , within a few weeks of Katherine arrival , had by a few deft touches and additions acquired a new look . |
14 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
15 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
16 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
17 | Within a few weeks of his arrival , we had shown that , half an hour after training ( that is , about the same time as the changes in membrane phosphorylation ) , there is a dramatic increase in the expression of c-fos and c-jun proteins in cells of the IMHV . |
18 | Within a few weeks of this tragedy , on 29 May 1985 , further disaster struck at the European Cup Final between Italy 's Juventus and England 's Liverpool at Brussels ' Heysel Stadium . |
19 | Within a few weeks of the Ashleys moving in , she drove up , knocked on the door and welcomed them to the area . |
20 | These ‘ signatures ’ were mostly added by an employee of Kahnweiler 's when they reached his gallery ; this was usually , though clearly not always , within a few weeks of being painted . |
21 | ‘ It is just 21 months since we received approval to go ahead with the project , and we are delighted that we have started up production within a few weeks of a date that many thought was unrealistic ! ’ |
22 | Within a few weeks of his appointment the new Metropolitan was urging , in an interview with Romania Libera , that religion be taught in schools and announcing that a Synod-appointed commission would select the basic religious concepts to be taught in primary , junior and senior schools . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100–200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection . |
25 | Within a few weeks after his arrival in Morocco , only a handful of servants , bodyguards and Dr Prima , the paediatrician , remained with the Shah and the Queen . |
26 | Under constantly damp conditions pellets decay very rapidly ( see next section ) , within a few weeks in the case of tawny owl and eagle owl pellets , although rather longer in some species like the barn owl . |