Example sentences of "after a week " in BNC.

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1 After a week , Agassiz 's object lesson in respect for examining nature had made its impact .
2 Weeding after a week away took the entire 60-minute ration of time
3 The great head of yeast created during fermentation is cropped off and after a week the remaining yeast is overcome by the alcohol it has produced and sinks to the bottom of the fermenter .
4 AYRTON SENNA did all he could to keep the championship open by yesterday winning the Spanish Grand Prix which , after a week of accusations and exclusions , was something of an anti-climax .
5 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 .
6 It was a characteristically defiant performance coming from the leader of a party trailing 8-10 points in the opinion polls , her own satisfaction ratings slumped beaneth her opponent 's , and after a week which had rocked the credibility of her government 's economic policy , on which all else depends .
7 If you can afford it , spend two or three days recording your tracks , take away a rough mix and then go back to the studio after a week or so .
8 ‘ A man can be dead tired after a week 's work but he can still give his wife a helping hand .
9 If we have recently lost sleep ( after a week of trying to sleep in the daytime , for example ) or have been awake for an unusually long time , then the amount of deep sleep is increased but it is still concentrated in the earlier part of sleep .
10 How do we know he wo n't discharge himself again after a week ?
11 After a week together , Jakki flew back to Britain in floods of tears , only to fly back to the States again three days later to interview Madonna .
12 Two , who were most seriously ill with vomiting and other symptoms , were released after a week .
13 After a week of fighting , the war that had begun with a thunderous high-tech blitzkrieg in the skies over Baghdad had not yet delivered visible proof of victory .
14 After a week of fighting , Mr Hussein 's war machine has done virtually nothing but hunker down and wait to be attacked .
15 After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words .
16 After a week of feeling lovelorn and dreamy he decided to contact her .
17 After a week at home I began to get restless , as always in the company of my parents .
18 After a week , top up with water .
19 After a week of caring for them a bond had been formed .
20 After a week , 62 usability problems were identified , including slow navigation through the system , poor screen formats , uncomfortable furniture and incomplete documentation .
21 AFTER a week 's exposure to American television 's sports coverage it was a relief to watch television at home .
22 After a week in the country , Baxter 's health greatly improved and so he took the opportunity to preach in some of the needy country churches in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire .
23 After a week , Joseph , his daughter Hophoponmi ( Sound of Running Feet ) , Ollokot , his wife Wetatonmi , and the half-man , half-woman Welweyas re-crossed the Salmon to butcher beef .
24 In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week .
25 After a week , Val came back , tearful and shaky , and declared that she meant at least to earn her living , and would take a course in shorthand-typing .
26 It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why .
27 After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango .
28 Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week 's heavy drinking .
29 I went to my room as often as I could , and then after a week I went to the local Employment Exchange .
30 But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for .
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