Example sentences of "[vb -s] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only claim six night visits a week , although I usually do 60 . |
| 2 | First , it is important that centres put the correct start and finish dates on the Form NC5 so that is a subject assessor visits a week before the declared finish date , he will find that students are close to finishing the module — and not that the declared date was fairly fictitious and related to a timetabling convenience . |
| 3 | The streets are full of For Sale notices , although close inspection shows they refer to repossessions in which Southend is the third worst case in the country outside London ; the local paper carries two pages of bankruptcy notices a week . |
| 4 | SUNDERLAND are staging three £100 opens tonight , including a trial stakes for the forthcoming £2,000-to-the-winner Milligans Bakery Challenge Trphy , which starts a week tonight . |
| 5 | Barnes still has a week to recover , but Liverpool 's manager , Kenny Dalglish , is making no predictions . |
| 6 | Terry said : ‘ Shirley has a week off in September and we may well go down to Butlin 's . ’ |
| 7 | A lad has a week to settle in , then another three weeks to show us what he can do . |
| 8 | Nigel Bunn says it 's hard because youhave to carry all your own stuff … he usually needs a week to recover |
| 9 | John Pawsey describes a week in the life of a literary agent . |
| 10 | The medical Royal Colleges recently agreed that 21 measures a week for men and 14 for women is sensible . |
| 11 | FORMER Philippines ' first lady Imelda Marcos plans a week of high-profile activities to generate publicity and set the stage for a possible bid for the presidency after nearly six years in exile . |
| 12 | And two late passes a week and when you 've had those you can get in through the pantry window if the front door 's been locked . ’ |
| 13 | The course includes a week 's study tour within Europe , visiting business and political organisations . |
| 14 | Brian Dixon 's All-Star Wrestling stages 10 shows a week and has 150 full-time and 220 part-time wrestlers on its books . |
| 15 | Under the new format , the ‘ A ’ list is expanded from 15 to 20 singles , each guaranteed a minimum of 15 plays a week , while the 20 singles on the ‘ B ’ list can expect around ten plays a week . |
| 16 | ‘ Tory Party smoke screens a week before the General Election can not obscure the fact that crime has increased while the Conservatives have been in power . ’ |
| 17 | Every night she comes out , I 've got ta do the homework , it 'll got ta be in tomorrow , normally gets a week ! |
| 18 | Next month Clarify will add its ClearQuality defect tracking system and in the first quarter ClearLogistics , a field service and inventory management system intended to support companies with hundreds of engineers , thousands of customer calls a week and millions of dollars of field service inventory . |
| 19 | Probably his parents did n't get more than half a dozen calls a week , Agnes realised . |
| 20 | A DOE public information phone line , set up last year , which gives information on sulphur and nitrogen-XXXX related pollution , receives only about a dozen calls a week . |
| 21 | The pain which Nelson 's blows caused has now receded and the bruises will go when he takes a week 's rest in Spain . |
| 22 | The nits , also brown in colour , can be seen attached to the pubic hair , and examination with a magnifying glass will distinguish those containing a developing larva , which takes a week before it leaves the egg , from those which have already been vacated . |
| 23 | ‘ But it 'll cost ye three quid , ’ Rab said , ‘ if ye get beat , if it takes a week . ’ |
| 24 | It takes a week to check each bird on the river and judging by the six hundred year old tradition of toasting each swan , it must be thirsty work . |
| 25 | THE average British employee wastes a week and a half of work time a year waiting for the kettle to boil for tea , a report claimed yesterday . |
| 26 | The first of these is the lack of interest shown by the general public for the game , which only appears a week or so before Wimbledon and disappears a week or so afterwards . |
| 27 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 28 | Persistent diarrhoea was defined as a chronic doubling of the frequency of defecation before irradiation and a minimum frequency of at least 14 bowel actions a week . |
| 29 | This 17 day holiday combines a week in Poland with a week in Czechoslovakia . |
| 30 | This is not a superabundance of time but , used effectively , it will be just adequate and will allow for about 10 lectures a week . |