Example sentences of "[num] weeks [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within 2 weeks he had raped and murdered Anna McGurk as she walked home from work at Gloucester City Council . |
| 2 | Over the next 2 weeks she telephoned the therapist two or three times a week complaining of a variety of physical symptoms and demanding to be seen straight away . |
| 3 | In the next 12 weeks we could lose the next general election . ’ |
| 4 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |
| 5 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 6 | for the first thirteen weeks of unemployment people are allowed to look for jobs that they want to do or are skilled or experienced to do but after thirteen weeks they will be compelled to take any job that comes along . |
| 7 | In that six weeks they had become friends , and it was a very satisfying feeling . |
| 8 | In six weeks they were married , and ten months later I was born . ’ |
| 9 | to get her car back , you know what they said if she does n't pay that thirty pound within six weeks they 'll pawn it ! |
| 10 | It is not just the six weeks we were shut down this summer and the loss of trade since , we are worried about the future . |
| 11 | Every five to six weeks we 'll send you a colour brochure about each new Vevay pack full of exclusive beauty products , every one specially matched to your skin type and colouring . |
| 12 | For the previous six weeks we had done nothing but make preparations ; buying the tickets , finding tenants for the house , and , hardest of all , putting the house in a fit state to receive tenants ! |
| 13 | I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’ |
| 14 | From around six weeks you should be rewarded by an answering smile . |
| 15 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 16 | Thought we might have Joanne and Paul round over the next couple of weeks or something before the wedding pre-wedding , it 's only about six weeks you know till their wedding ! |
| 17 | After about six weeks you know . |
| 18 | Within six weeks it was a ‘ deceased parrot ’ . |
| 19 | Since the life cycle of an adult worm can be as long as six weeks it is advisable to continue with these general hygiene measures for six weeks . |
| 20 | But after about six weeks it gets rubbed off a little bit when you find out the practicalities of the job rather than the , y'know , the theory . ’ |
| 21 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
| 22 | For six weeks it has been pitch black . |
| 23 | but er that was all in six weeks it 's beautiful |
| 24 | After just six weeks she returned home and refused to go back . |
| 25 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 26 | She had looked deep into his black eyes ; for six weeks she had enjoyed , in the brief times they had spent together , the happiest and most carefree days of her life , surreptitiously stolen , with the help of a willing friend , from her guarded life , the life of a rich heiress . |
| 27 | She was filled with happiness , although during the past six weeks she had suffered from indecision and doubts . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I once said that the reason we went to America was to make money , but over the last six weeks I 've really changed my mind totally . |
| 29 | The first six weeks I did n't want to know . |
| 30 | And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks . |