LOS ANGELES A few weeks ago, the world was on the edge of disaster.

It often takes a few weeks before most symptoms resolve.

A couple of weeks ago, my son and I saw a man attack a woman on Telegraph.

The writing of the judgement requires a few weeks.

The Turks and Caicos Islands also had suffered quite extensive damage to part of the Territory a few weeks earlier.

I have visited Kosovo on a couple of occasions after the events of March 2004 and again a few weeks ago.

Conspiracy theories abound as to why a coup is being staged only few weeks before the scheduled elections

Telecom companies rescinded their decision a few weeks later.

Taste disturbances Pine nuts can cause taste disturbances, lasting from a few days to a few weeks after consumption.

BERLIN Just weeks ago, the worst of the financial crisis in Europe seemed to be over. Stability seemed to be returning.

In a few weeks, this flexibility will be used up.

His fans paid more than 15,000 within a few weeks.

The town was briefly lost to the terrorist groups in January, before being taken back by government forces a few weeks later.

Within a few weeks the market forced Paulson s hand and he had to take them over.

The worm then comes out of the skin over a few weeks.

But a couple of weeks ago, I asked a bunch of friends to Google Egypt and to send me screen shots of what they got.

Kaufman s approach with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago.

On 9 January 1719, France declared war on Spain, following in the footsteps of England who had done so a couple of weeks earlier, on 27 December 1718.

If I wanted to scare you, I would have told you about what I dreamt about a few weeks ago.

After a few days or weeks, memory abruptly returns.

Just a few weeks ago , Cuban blogger Norges Rodríguez published a petition on Change.org calling for affordable Internet access for the Cuban population.

A couple of weeks ago, a French company asked us to design five billboards for them.

Whereas a few weeks ago, commentators and financial analysts argued that only a few months remained to rescue Europe, leading politicians, lurching from summit to summit, have recently talked in terms of days.

I recount this history not to draw a parallel with today s Israeli Palestinian conflict, which, just a couple of weeks ago, resulted in many civilian deaths, overwhelmingly in Gaza.

Hadjiev s sister, the journalist Olgusapar Muradova, died in prison several weeks later, under suspicious circumstances.

Certainly, in the last 15 years, we've seen increasing numbers of planets outside of our solar system being confirmed, and just last month, a couple of weeks ago, a planet in the size class of Earth has actually been found.

We saw this a few weeks ago, when former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.

He became a member of the Nazi Party in February 1933, a few weeks after Hitler became chancellor.

Because of the publication requirements (preparation of documents must be completed 10 weeks before the session starts, i.e. by the beginning of March 2006) the secretariat will only have a few weeks to prepare the synthesis, which may not be enough to produce a quality report.

With the Copenhagen climate summit only weeks away, forging a commitment on climate change is the most pressing challenge.

It will be interesting to see in a few weeks or a few months whether the Kremlin will really deliver.

Several weeks ago Greenland's 60,000 people voted themselves self governance rights from Denmark.

Our models are, to put it bluntly, useless for predicting currency movements over a few weeks or months.

Having campaigned on a promise to restore and improve the French people s purchasing power, Sarkozy came to power, in May 2007, just a few weeks before the sub prime mortgage crisis erupted, and a few months before commodity prices exploded.

However, a few weeks after her discharge from hospital, her state of health deteriorated as she stopped taking her medication.

Israel has known for a few weeks that Hezbollah has been planning widespread terrorist attacks in northern Israel.

Here's a person who had gained sight just a couple of weeks ago, and you see Ethan Myers, a graduate student from MIT, running the experiment with him.

Late this spring, something changed, and within a few weeks moderates made dramatic public advances.

Compare this with antibiotic treatment of, say, a urogenital infection, which lasts a few weeks at most.

In a discussion with friends from the African Union a few weeks back, I quoted a nineteenth century thinker who favoured radical reform reform that is permitted by reason and not permitted by the police.

The European Union is fully committed to those efforts and to playing a full part in the 10 year plan for capacity building with the African Union that was called for by the world summit just a few weeks ago.

The Chairman subsequently informed the Committee that he might not be able to continue serving the Committee as Chairman beyond some weeks.

Tourjan says that the interesting point is that Madadi, the vice president who has acted in a very immoral way, a few weeks ago told the Association of Islamic Students that they would be shut down for doing immoral things!

A few weeks ago, armed men abducted the girls, who are between 15 and 18 years old, from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, about 130 kilometres west of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria.

It also provides that women who are over six months pregnant may not be included on night shift rosters. Pursuant to article 141 of Law No. 185, the period of maternity leave was changed from six weeks before and six weeks after the birth to four weeks before and eight weeks after, or ten weeks after in the case of multiple births.