In 1988, a few weeks before buying Now That's What I Call Music 11, I had been given the first album in the Now series, handed down by my older cousins when they bought a CD player and got rid of their vinyl.
"Normally there's only two weeks before Wimbledon; now I've got three and a half.
Nina had turned off the ringer on her phone weeks before, and now she listened to the messages as they came through her old scratchy answering machine.
A dozen of his men had been killed in rice fields roughly two weeks before, and now that the front lines had shifted he had come to give them proper graves.
Israel, desperate not to let Hamas distract Gazans' attention from their own internal troubles, restricted itself to an air strike on a Hamas base, killing four militants.Mr Qawasmeh, who had tried to resign several weeks before, has now quit for good.
For no apparent reason, for example, it often decided to show me directions and travel times to local restaurants I searched for weeks before Google Now was even available.
But for all the terror that had filled the neighborhood just two weeks before, the place now appeared to be alive with its customary mercantile bustle.
To determine whether the complaints were recurrent, we asked patients if they had experienced similar knee complaints in the past, with complaints disappearing at least several weeks before returning again now.
The momentum that seemed to have been gained by Landon Donovan's equaliser against Sporting KC the week before has now been lost.
And to the Chinese people, well versed in extracting the message from party propaganda, the missive was loud and clear: The spy plane incident had been resolved, and the nationalistic indignation that the party had helped awaken a week before should now be put back to bed.
