Example sentences of "a week [unc] " in BNC.

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1 If I 'm not teaching I 'm marking in th to actually get a lecture through cos I was given this with about a weeks ' notice you see , so I did n't have a chance to prepare the stuff for this course other than as we go along Right ?
2 Er , by all means , go , go through all this stuff in a weeks ' time and throw out th , those things you do n't need .
3 I do n't think people buy it so much on have you seen , they 're going to give you a weeks ' television
4 Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ?
5 But I have a week er but I could n't open my week 's .
6 it 's been in a week er
7 shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that !
8 Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + +
9 All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that .
10 The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know .
11 A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet .
12 But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state .
13 It was then the best part of a week 's work on Malcolm 's part to get that saw running sweetly .
14 With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life .
15 He now earns his living as a lorry driver , so he had taken a week 's holiday to compete at Wembley .
16 BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month .
17 I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work .
18 The Southern trials will be at Crystal Palace in a week 's time , with the final trials also at Crystal Palace in December .
19 The prospect of a week 's walking in Borrowdale at the end of July would raise the spirits of any walker , but to spend a week there as Outdoors Action prizewinners was an added bonus .
20 Some of these may be local authority centres , offering tuition on a sessional basis at between £2 and £6 an hour ; others are professional sailing schools , usually situated in the popular UK holiday areas where a week 's fully residential course will cost up to about £200 .
21 She had learned as a girl and given herself a week 's holiday for a thirtieth birthday present .
22 From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th .
23 ‘ A man can be dead tired after a week 's work but he can still give his wife a helping hand .
24 ‘ Well , a week 's good .
25 No sooner had he come back than he left Diana and the children at home yet again , and went to Italy on a week 's painting holiday .
26 They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday .
27 The pain which Nelson 's blows caused has now receded and the bruises will go when he takes a week 's rest in Spain .
28 Southend 's players flew off for a week 's break in Spain after a 2-1 win at Halifax which put them five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division .
29 The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there .
30 The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there .
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