Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a week " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was due to report a week later , but he left work immediately and they spent every possible moment together . |
| 2 | An Oxford painter 's wife paid her mother a half crown a week for coming to help on washday : ‘ a little bit of pin money … |
| 3 | But this means a week of capital tied up , as well as weight loss , which would mean a rise in prices to compensate . |
| 4 | Brian Dixon 's All-Star Wrestling stages 10 shows a week and has 150 full-time and 220 part-time wrestlers on its books . |
| 5 | This is not a superabundance of time but , used effectively , it will be just adequate and will allow for about 10 lectures a week . |
| 6 | ‘ I am sure you would be delighted to spend a week among the Menuras ’ Gould wrote immediately . |
| 7 | The medical Royal Colleges recently agreed that 21 measures a week for men and 14 for women is sensible . |
| 8 | The trip was supposed to last a week . |
| 9 | Probably his parents did n't get more than half a dozen calls a week , Agnes realised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 94 WIN A WEEK AT A HEALTH HYDRO |
| 12 | Some sub-contractors , particularly when paid on the lump or a daywork basis , may expect payment on a Friday , up to and including that day , but from the builder 's point of view it is preferable to keep a week in hand . |
| 13 | During last year 's summer holidays , 57 handicapped or deprived children were able to enjoy a week of varied activities with the help of six girls from Upton Hall Convent School on the Wirral . |
| 14 | ‘ They looked well able to survive a week when I last looked at them , but I 'll go and check again now . |
| 15 | It is a sign of the nervousness around Europe that when the Irish asked a week ago for the treaty negotiations to be reopened so that they could amend the abortion protocol , other countries reacted with horror . |
| 16 | After Calgary ( population : 400,000 ; rail service after January : one train a week , summer only ) we were in the mountains , and people crowded into the dome car for the high spot of the trip . |
| 17 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 18 | No service 23 December 1989 to 20 January 1990 ; one sailing a week on the route from November to February . |
| 19 | Life 's chocolate flavoured , say women who eat 70 bars a week |
| 20 | Some addicts suffer violent mood swings if they are deprived of their favourite snack food while others pile on the pounds by munching their way through up to 70 bars a week . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | Watney 's came in with its own offer a week after Joseph and £4 million higher than his . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He works at weekends as a hospital porter , and finds it necessary to take a week off to compete in a national or international event . |
| 26 | At the next meeting a week later , Hunt said that the building , which he supposed would be ‘ an elaborate Italianate building ’ , would cost approximately £1,000,000 . |
| 27 | we 've both got a week off , and we thought we 'd all can go just for a couple of days |