This kept happening as the weeks went by, and each time I was amazed.

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But as the weeks went by, Dr. Thompson says, the young women began to lose interest in their temporary jobs.

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Yet, as the weeks went by, such support proved thin.

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Weeks went by, so I went on Twitter and in an hour I had someone who was going to get right on it, and I got the forms a few days later.

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"There were several weeks that went by where there was no recycling pickup, and the information we got from the city was not accurate, " Heinisch said.

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Construction of the Inspire Luton Sports Village in Stopsley was delayed by five weeks after three sub-contractors went into administration.

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Early valuation estimates were as high as 20 billion, but that dropped by half in just a few weeks before the company finally went public.

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In one three-month period she was brought home by the police 58 times and sometimes went missing for two weeks at a time.

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Works by Picasso and Miro also went under the hammer in the first of two weeks of major auctions in New York.

BBC: Claude Monet's Nympheas. Image from Christie's, New York