Example sentences of "[art] past few weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 2 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 3 | In the past few weeks , some 30,000 East Germans have expressed their lack of faith in the GDR 's future by abandoning their homes and , often , their relatives for the freedom of the West . |
| 4 | The suggestion is he has topped up his stake in the past few weeks when Grand Met 's shares have been weak , falling from 658p . |
| 5 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 6 | About 1,500 East Germans who managed to reach Bonn 's embassy in Warsaw in the past few weeks have been sent to the West in two special trains . |
| 7 | Like , I 'm sure that child 's seen enough policemen in the past few weeks , you do n't know what goes through kids ' minds . |
| 8 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |
| 9 | Schools , temples and churches have been hit too many times in the past few weeks to be the victims of mistakes . |
| 10 | Pressure from the people , and from the French government , has in the past few weeks nudged some neighbouring West African dictatorships the same way . |
| 11 | The administration should be the champion of the IFC , not , as during the past few weeks , its worst enemy . |
| 12 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 13 | Over the past few weeks , he 'd detected a fiendish intelligence in the machine whose sense of humour he empathised with . |
| 14 | The sale , to be announced within days , will be the Scottish group 's second deal in the past few weeks . |
| 15 | Following the pattern of local elections in France and Germany in the past few weeks , Italians have delivered a vote of no confidence in the parties that have governed since the war , notably the Christian Democrats . |
| 16 | Some of the more broadly-based share indices have suffered sharper losses in the past few weeks and analysts believe the Dow could soon match these declines . |
| 17 | ONE important women 's issue has gone unnoticed in the past few weeks — the hemline question . |
| 18 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |
| 19 | WITH all the generation of hot air in the past few weeks , one might ask what effect this will have on the ozone layer ? |
| 20 | Neither can the fact that the bagpipes of the various regimental associations and lobby groups were remarkably silent over the past few weeks . |
| 21 | And tragically , in the past few weeks we have seen the US and its Allies carry out over 44,000 sorties over a period of 20 days against the people of Iraq . |
| 22 | Over the past few weeks she had come to the conclusion that the person she would most like to share her home was quiet , devoted Jenny . |
| 23 | It is the end of October and the water temperature has dropped several degrees in the past few weeks , the minnow shoals are less numerous and the chub are fighting fit . |
| 24 | Sorting machines incorporating microprocessors have been ordered in the past few weeks to upgrade rice , coffee and groundnuts . |
| 25 | Over the past few weeks , Apple has been courting the press with sneak previews of Lisa on the condition that the participants undertook not to breath a word of what they had seen until the machine was officially announced on 20 January ( simultaneously around the world ) . |
| 26 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 27 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 28 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 29 | We have made so many friends over the past few weeks . |
| 30 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |