Sentence examples for had begun weeks from inspiring English sources

But the results set off a firestorm across Europe, pouring fuel on a slow-burning scandal that had begun weeks earlier with the first discovery of horse meat masquerading as beef in Ireland and then Britain.

In Foreign: But the results set off a firestorm across Europe, pouring fuel on a slow-burning scandal that had begun weeks earlier with the first discovery of horse meat masquerading as beef in Ireland and then Britain.

MY journey to K2 had begun two weeks earlier in Islamabad, the hot, tumultuous Pakistani capital.

The saga had begun four weeks earlier in the war ravaged streets of Kabul.

He was also a bit late in the day since the demonstrations had begun two weeks before he joined them.

The march onto the Brooklyn Bridge and the resulting arrests marked one of the high-profile moments of the Occupy Wall Street protests, which had begun two weeks earlier.

It was framed as a response to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which had begun six weeks earlier, but the timing suggests this may have been a last-minute pretext.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukON THE night of June 3rd-4th 1989 the Chinese army unleashed its tanks in the centre of Beijing to crush a protest that had begun seven weeks earlier against the Communist Party's autocratic rule.

On Saturday, Oct. 1, more than 700 people were arrested during a march across the Brooklyn Bridge, the largest police roundup in the demonstrations that had begun two weeks earlier.

Although most TV viewers had not heard Kerry speak at length about Iraq before, his comeback from a late-summer slump had begun two weeks earlier, on September 16th, at the annual convention of the National Guard Association in Las Vegas.

He could not risk being seen with Ellsberg, but he wanted to be there to mark the end of the saga that had begun three weeks earlier, at the dinner in Cambridge.