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Example sentences for "few weeks"

  • There remained another affair, which must also be finally settled in a few weeks.

  • He had two important objects in view, and within a few weeks he succeeded in accomplishing both.

  • I thought of writing him a letter, advising a couple of anti-bilious pills before bedtime for a few weeks.

  • The advertisements informed him that numbers of authors were abandoning that procrustean system; hopeless as he was, he might as well try his chance with a book which could be written in a few weeks.

  • A few weeks ago I didn't expect you to be cheerful.

  • I thought of a few weeks--somewhere at the seaside.

  • I intend to remain a few weeks longer at Madrid at all events, for the present moment is too fraught with interest to allow me to quit it immediately.

  • Within a few weeks I propose to cross the water to Ceuta and Tangiers with part of the books at present in embargo at San Lucar.

  • I received your letter of last January a few weeks since, and I sincerely hope that mine of February may have reached your hands.

  • In a few weeks he will be in London, which he intends visiting during a summer tour which he is on the point of commencing.

  • And so Sir Pitt was forgotten--like the kindest and best of us--only a few weeks sooner.

  • A few weeks or months hence it may be too late, and I cannot bear the notion of quitting the country without a kind word of farewell from you.

  • The result was that, a few weeks afterward, a compromise having been made, I bought it and sent it to the library of Cornell University, where it is now both useful and ornamental.

  • Our rector was one day called to attend the funeral of a little child but a few weeks old, the daughter of neighbors of ours.

  • A few weeks later in the Autumn we have again ominous notices from Dubourgay.

  • The shadows of death were already round this poor Franke; and in a few weeks more, he had himself departed.

  • If one is anxious thoroughly to appreciate the value of a congenial companion, he has only to spend a few weeks by himself in an Ogallalla village.

  • They had repeatedly detected Indians prowling at night around their camps; and the large party which had left Bent's Fort a few weeks previous to our own departure had been attacked, and a man named Swan, from Massachusetts, had been killed.

  • If a young Prussian repaired, though but for a few weeks, to Leyden or Gottingen for the purpose of study, the offence was punished with civil disabilities, and sometimes with the confiscation of property.

  • Manchester was deprived of the seals, after he had held them only a few weeks.

  • The Whigs tried, during a few weeks, to persuade themselves that her Majesty had acted only from personal dislike to the Secretary, and that she meditated no further alteration.

  • I will frankly declare that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained.

  • I little thought, as I shuddered at the question, that in the space of a few weeks I should actually be a captive in that self-same valley.

  • Glamorgan was arrested in Dublin by Ormond, but was released after a few weeks, and returned coolly to Kilkenny to conduct further negotiations.

  • In a few weeks, it is said that about four thousand prisoners were set at liberty.

  • Parliament was prorogued for a few weeks at Easter, and recourse was had to a clever expedient to win popular sympathy for the measures.

  • It is astonishing to see what a change for the better in her aspect a few weeks of brain-rest and heart's ease have wrought in her.

  • The young people who come into Paris from the provinces are very apt--so I have been told by one that knows--to have an attack of typhoid fever a few weeks or months after their arrival.

  • Every summer he goes out of town for a few weeks.

  • Sometimes we had milk, but this was only when a cow calved; the yield from each cow was very small, and lasted only for a few weeks in each case, although the pasture is good, and the animals are sleek and fat.

  • A few weeks of comparatively dry weather generally intervene in March, after a month or two of rain.

  • I resolved to stay here for a few weeks to make collections.

  • From information obtained here, I fixed upon the next town, Obydos, as the best place to stay for a few weeks, in order to investigate the natural productions of the north side of the Lower Amazons.

  • It appeared to me to be an easy, pleasant life; the work is all done under shade, and occupies only a few weeks in the year.

  • He escaped, and when brought back to the hospital a few weeks subsequently he was in a condition of great excitement and hilarity.

  • He passed bloody urine immediately after the injury, but the wound soon healed, and in a few weeks he was able to hunt the buffalo without inconvenience.

  • They died after a few weeks, and in March, 1880, she again bore twins, one living three and the other nine weeks.

  • The remarkable grasping power of the hand at birth and for a few weeks thereafter, that permits young babies to suspend their whole weight on a cane for a period varying from half a minute to two minutes.

  • In a few weeks, when the covering is whisked off--ah, you shall see!

  • Remember my tellin' you, a few weeks ago, 'bout that vacation I was plannin'?

  • I've only been writing seriously for a few weeks, and already the best magazines in the country are refusing my manuscripts daily.

  • It is better that we go our separate ways for a few weeks, until our work has served to adjust the balance that has been disturbed.

  • I then ordered books to be procured, and by the direction of the vicar had in a few weeks a closet elegantly furnished.

  • He provided all that was necessary, and in a few weeks congratulated me upon my escape from the danger which we had both expected with so much anxiety.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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