Example sentences of "few weeks [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in . |
| 3 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 4 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 5 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 6 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 7 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 8 | ‘ Just a few weeks after I left the ship it was sunk by our own Typhoon fighters with the loss of 56 lives , ’ said Mr Connor , whose son , Paul , saw front-line action as a medic in the Gulf War . |
| 9 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |