1.   For more than a week before the Inchon landing, the Allied forces used diversionary tactics by bombing nearby areas.

2.   For weeks before Obon, each community builds its own large model of a sailing schooner.

3.   I watched the fish for several weeks before the unfortunate incident of the Great Grand Union Drought disaster.

4.   In our last weeks before unemployment, several of us learned the Quark XPress computer program.

5.   In the last hectic weeks before the show started we were practically living in the theatre to get it ready on time.

6.   In the weeks before the game, Ogden gave a number of boastful interviews to the press.

7.   Military activity was secretly taking place for weeks before the invasion.

8.   Mr McGowan reportedly rang the police at least four times, the last time a week before his death.

9.   Once well formed, remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly.