The first sixty-nine weeks are interpreted as covering the period until Christ ’ s first coming, but the last week is thought to represent the years of the tribulation which will come at the end of this age, directly preceding the millennial age of peace:

As Bush lagged in the polls in the weeks preceding the August 1992 Republican National Convention, some Republican strategists ( led by Secretary of State James Baker ) viewed Quayle as a liability to the ticket and pushed for his replacement.

In retrospect, scholars speculate that Harding had shown physical signs of cardiac insufficiency with congestive heart failure in the preceding weeks.

The Nice Carnival was held as far back as 1294, and is still held annually, attracting over a million visitors yearly during the two weeks preceding Lent.

The annual Carnival Steel Pan competition known as the National Panorama competition is held in the weeks preceding Carnival with the finals held on the Saturday before the main event.

However, depending upon the date of the upcoming Pascha, the readings of the preceding weeks are either skipped ( if Pascha will be early ) or repeated ( if it will be late ) so that the readings for the 32nd Sunday after Pentecost always occur on the Sunday preceding the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee.

As a result of this supplement, the total benefit of a married man with two children went up by 52 %, and that of a single man by 117 .% The duration was limited to 26 weeks, while the total benefit was restricted to 85 % of average weekly earnings in the preceding financial year.

In the preceding weeks and hours, Ike Clanton had repeatedly threatened Doc Holliday and the Earps.

Its inaugural number one bestseller, The Body Principal by Victoria Principal, had been number ten and number twelve on the non-fiction lists for the two preceding weeks.

The accident came less than two weeks after an intense argument with his team-mate, Didier Pironi, over Pironi's move to pass Villeneuve at the preceding San Marino Grand Prix.

The males are first at the spawning grounds preceding the females for a few weeks.

In recent years, the Mardi Gras Parade has been on the first Saturday of March, with a festival of events going for approximately three weeks preceding it.

Town musicians or ' waits ' were licensed to collect money in the streets in the weeks preceding Christmas, the custom spread throughout the population by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to the present day.

Christmas cards are usually exchanged during the weeks preceding Christmas Day by many people ( including non-Christians ) in Western society and in Asia.

Title VII applies to and covers an employer " who has fifteen ( 15 ) or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year " as written in the Definitions section under 42 U. S. C.

Title VII only applies to employers who employ 15 or more employees for 20 or more weeks in the current or preceding calendar year ().

* the average weekly reported volume of trading in the securities on all national securities exchanges for the preceding 4 weeks

The World Health Organization defines chronic suppurative otitis media ( CSOM ) as " a stage of ear disease in which there is chronic infection of the middle ear cleft, a non-intact tympanic membrane ( i. e. perforated eardrum ) and discharge ( otorrhoea ), for at least the preceding two weeks " ( WHO 1998 ).

Over this, shots of the new characters introduced over preceding weeks were shown.

This was welcome news after the run on American gold in the preceding weeks.

In the final weeks of her life, she was intensely involved in the pro-euro campaign preceding the Swedish referendum on the euro, held on 14 September 2003, three days after her death.

It develops only in patients who live in or travel to an endemic area or receive a contaminated blood transfusion within the preceding 9 weeks, so this aspect of the medical history is vital.

Term in office is one academic term plus its preceding vacation ( about 14 – 23 weeks ).

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

It is one of the very few songs of the 1960s to cast the military in a positive light, yet it became a major hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard charts for five weeks in 1966.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

* 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.

His follow-up album, No Fences, was released in 1990 and spent 23 weeks as number-one on the Billboard country music chart.

It spent 10 weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart, according to Joel Whitburn's " Top Pop Albums ," peaking at No. 154 in 1968, by far the worst showing among Love's first three albums ( according to " Top Pop Albums ," Love's next album, " Four Sail ," fared better on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at No. 102 in 1969 ).

" Alone Again Or " initially peaked at No. 123 in 1968 in an edited version, while the longer, original album version spent three weeks on the singles chart in 1970 before peaking at No. 99, according to Whitburn's " Top Pop Singles: 1955-2010.

Martina Hingis ( born 30 September 1980 ) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1.

On October 14 of that year, it became a No. 1 album and stayed on the charts for 109 weeks after its release.

It was No. 1 for two consecutive weeks.

It entered the charts at No. 79 ; ten weeks later, it was No. 1.

Also in July, the compilation album The Best of the Seekers was released and spent 17 weeks at No. 1 in Australia.

Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles ( including Nicks's song " Dreams ", which was the band's first and only US number one ) and remained at No. 1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world.

In October, Media Control named Williams the most successful album-artist of the millennium due to the fact that he had spent No. 1 on the German Albums Chart for 38 weeks since 2000.

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The single took seven weeks before finally reaching No. 1 at the end of June ; the parent album Replicas simultaneously reached No. 1.

The album peaked at No. 12, produced two hit singles including the Top 20 title track and, like I, Assassin, spent six weeks in the charts.

No statement was released until three weeks later despite rumours that Lumumba was dead.

The song spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.