Example sentences of "[art] [adj] weeks " in BNC.

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1 They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’
2 Although you will not be able to take your puppy out for a walk in public places until it has completed its course of inoculation , at about 12 weeks old , the intervening weeks up to this point will be useful in familiarizing the dog with walking on a leash .
3 Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks .
4 Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks .
5 How had she managed to survive the intervening weeks when this was what she was made for ?
6 He had slipped from my mind during the preoccupations of the intervening weeks .
7 And carry on just as if er we were proceeding immediately after the proposed excellent introduction and as if the intervening weeks just had n't occurred .
8 For the remaining weeks , you pay her at the lower rate of £44.50 a week .
9 In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League .
10 In the remaining weeks he refined the calibration of the detector by exposing it to beams of neutrons of known energy , produced by a van de Graaff accelerator .
11 Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation .
12 Especially in the early weeks of the diet , eating habits are very similar to the old ways .
13 A headline in the early weeks of 1991 referred to a 20% failure rate in reading skills ; an alternative , and preferable , line would have been an 80% success rate and a reminder of the conclusion of the Warnock Committee that , at any one time , 18% of the school population has special educational needs .
14 HAND PUPPETS made to look like mature Californian condors are being used by biologists at the San Diego wild animal park to nurse the first two Californian condor chicks born in captivity through the early weeks of life .
15 PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks .
16 Although Botham 's sponsored Mercedes was the victim of a nocturnal break-in on Newcastle quayside within days of him taking delivery , both superstars were in great heart during the early weeks , Jones 's infectious enthusiasm extending to initiating some dumbfounded team mates in the incomprehensible fielding routines practised by the Australians .
17 On David Graveney fell much of the strain during the early weeks , both metal and physical .
18 THE return of both Des Haynes and Angus Fraser had the desired effect on Middlesex 's fortunes during the early weeks of the season as they ran up a sequence of one-day wins .
19 If caught during the early weeks of pregnancy it can cause deafness , blindness and heart problems in the baby .
20 Even in the early weeks it may increase the risk of a miscarriage .
21 From a very early age — in fact , right from the early weeks — babies enjoy a refreshing drink .
22 LIVERPOOL whizz-kid Rob Jones could miss the early weeks of the new season after being struck down by a mystery virus .
23 In the early weeks of 1979 , ports were blockaded , the dead left unburied , rubbish piled high in the streets .
24 He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed .
25 Most colleges will allow students to change their subject choices in the early weeks of an academic session .
26 Aside from the Children 's Department , the Design Department , in the early weeks , were enraged by us ; not the Designers themselves , who were absolutely terrific to us , but the people who ran it who were often extremely unhelpful .
27 The non-strikers , at the other extreme , comprising the two fields ( Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire-South Derbyshire-Warwickshire ) which had less than 15 per cent on strike in the early weeks of the dispute , and less than 5 per cent when it was six months old .
28 The early weeks of the new era saw far-reaching institutional change throughout the country .
29 Given Bolshevik interest in obscuring the truth about this struggle , libertarians see no cause for surprise that ‘ we know less today about the early weeks of the Russian Revolution [ i.e. after October ] than we do , for instance , about the history of the Paris Commune . ’
30 A handsome little fellow and filled with mischief as boys should be ; no doubt this was Beth 's son , and , taking into account the years between , no doubt begot in the early weeks of Beth 's marriage .
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