Example sentences of "[vb past] a [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 2 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 3 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 4 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Intel still denies that there is any delay in volume deliveries of the Pentium 80586 microprocessor for public consumption , but vendors briefed by the company have confirmed that , as we revealed a few weeks ago ( UX No 410 ) , the part at present needs a heat sink and a fan , and that Intel is unlikely to be able to ship in volume before the fourth quarter 1993 . |
| 6 | They all spent a few weeks with me , a manufacturing engineer , to set objectives , to create a manufacturing improvement strategy and policies and then to drive them . |
| 7 | I heard a few weeks ago of the formation of an American group called ‘ Fundamentalists Anonymous ’ . |
| 8 | The back staircase collapsed a few weeks later . |
| 9 | The guitarist was Peter ‘ Ollie ’ Halsall who , sadly , died a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | Another monk , Kelsang Tsering , reportedly died a few weeks later of police wounds . |
| 11 | The good , the bad , the criminal , the religious Nicodemus that we saw a few weeks ago , all are sinners . |
| 12 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 13 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | So what you want then is the sheet we did a few weeks ago just about the erm |
| 15 | We did a few weeks ago |
| 16 | Now they use tractors , some pesticides , some inorganic fertilisers , but nevertheless most of the people of Umbria voted a few weeks ago in favour of a referendum which would have severely restricted the sale , and therefore the consumption , of pesticides . |
| 17 | To my astonishment , I learned a few weeks later that I had got the post . |
| 18 | ‘ I resigned a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends . |
| 20 | If you 're that abusive cow who wrote a few weeks back , then you can drop dead for all I care . |
| 21 | I only had a few weeks . |
| 22 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 23 | He had a few weeks to bask in the glow of this last electoral achievement , weeks that were only a little marred by the unpleasantness of Cabinet changes and the difficulties of moving towards a decision on the application of the oil sanction against Italy . |
| 24 | Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that . |
| 25 | maybe she 's got a bug or something , that 's what I had a few weeks ago remember , mm , mm , oh and then to cap it all |
| 26 | But John Butcher , a Junior industry minister said a few weeks ago : ‘ The Department of Industry is aware of the danger that future cable development should not be ‘ boxed in ’ by overspecified , futuristic or inflexible requirements for cable systems . |
| 27 | You said a few weeks ago ? ’ |
| 28 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 29 | Usually the committee of the Salon appointed a hanging committee which was automatically and unanimously approved by the general assembly at its annual meeting held a few weeks before the opening of the exhibition . |