Example sentences of "[prep] recent week " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the dramatic changes of recent weeks — the creation of a powerful new presidency , the ending of the Communist party 's guaranteed right to rule , Lithuania 's attempted secession from the Soviet Union — comes the jockeying for power in the new Soviet Union . |
| 2 | After the promise of recent weeks , Tottenham meekly succumbed to the Premier League 's bottom club . |
| 3 | He looked older , she thought — more mature , as if the events and uncertainties of recent weeks had given him a maturity beyond his years . |
| 4 | It also serves as a useful means of relieving stress through review of recent weeks . |
| 5 | The General Election may have come and gone in the Royal County of Berkshire , as it has everywhere else , yet for months prior to the political electioneering of recent weeks , one of Gt . |
| 6 | In Cairo , exhausted by the traumas of recent weeks , she had been concerned not only about the Shah and his morale , but also about their four children who had gone ahead of them to the states . |
| 7 | We welcome the positive moves of recent weeks on economic and political reform , but further effort is needed on key economic issues . |
| 8 | Bishop Peter is said to be receiving medical treatment for the stress of recent weeks . |
| 9 | And dark horses Llay will be looking to continue their steady progress of recent weeks with a win over Bersham at The Ring . |
| 10 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 11 | I have tried the Theakston 's brewed at the Masham brewery in recent weeks , and can only comment that I prefer the Gallowgate product . |
| 12 | Later , Mr Springer said he had attended dozens of these meetings in recent weeks all over his district . |
| 13 | He has swum across , although he knows that more than a dozen escapers have drowned there in recent weeks and East German border guards are patrolling . |
| 14 | But despite all the authorities ' attempts to pretend that all goes well , the birthday celebrations are moving forward in the shadow of a public mood of national crisis , dramatised by the tens of thousands of East Germans struggling to flee to the West in recent weeks . |
| 15 | Crowds have demonstrated in growing numbers in recent weeks - up to 20,000 in Leipzig on Monday night , chanting ‘ Gorby ! |
| 16 | It is not just a matter of the tens of thousands who have streamed out of the country in recent weeks , via Budapest , Prague and Warsaw . |
| 17 | After the failed June 1953 uprising , crushed by Soviet tanks , ‘ people shut their eyes and looked away ’ , said Heiko , a 19-year-old factory worker , after a packed service in the Gethsemane church , in recent weeks a centre of opposition . |
| 18 | But the whispers in recent weeks have got louder . |
| 19 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 20 | His comments had an immediate impact on the City , where analysts have grown increasingly anxious in recent weeks about the risk that asset values may fall in the face of oversupply and forced sales of buildings . |
| 21 | The leader of the Janata Dal party , VP Singh , has found himself and his family under scrutiny in recent weeks over highly suspect allegations that his son controlled a secret bank-account in the Caribbean island of St Kitts . |
| 22 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 23 | The weather has not been kind to the river in recent weeks and today is no exception . |
| 24 | This proposal has gathered significant support in recent weeks from higher education chiefs and Tory think-tanks such as the Centre for Policy Studies . |
| 25 | Their home tie with Barford Tigers , a team who have had excellent results in the Midlands League in recent weeks , may require them to recover quickly from their overseas exertions . |
| 26 | Their home tie with Barford Tigers , a team who have had excellent results in the Midlands League in recent weeks , may require them to recover quickly from their overseas exertions . |
| 27 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
| 28 | Both phrases have been much invoked in recent weeks as in : ‘ Mulroney has driven the Last Spike into our National Dream . ’ |
| 29 | In recent weeks , however , it has been the sudden rise in the number of Soviet Jews that has alarmed the authorities . |
| 30 | And Allders , a chain of 11 stores that also operates duty-free shops in many of Britain 's airports , has been plagued by rumours of financial difficulty in recent weeks . |