Example sentences of "a week [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it .
2 She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again !
3 She said and then I have two weeks erm homework to mark and then we have a weeks holiday I thought well that 's two weeks
4 And then you have a we sorry , I 'm sorry I ca n't do it that week , I 've got a weeks holiday .
5 got a weeks homework
6 They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is .
7 that maybe it should n't have been a we a weeks notice then .
8 Andrew Pask was remanded in custody and will appear in court again in a weeks time .
9 talking about children getting five pound a week spending money
10 We will also establish a work programme , combining three days a week work for the unemployed — paid at the proper rate — with two days ' training and job seeking .
11 In addition to his school life and his theatrical life and his special coaching of the boys , he would play the organ in church ( not chapel : he was an Anglican ) and several times a week work with his boys in the Air Training Corps which he turned into one of the finest in the principality , often called on for show parades .
12 She spoke recently of the strain of the six days a week work schedule that she said had left her shattered .
13 The batch screen options could be displayed by entering a week ending date .
14 In addition , certain other validation checks could be made on-line , namely the validation of a week ending date and staff number ( check -digit verification ) .
15 Type in the first date in the series — here I want a Week Ending sequence for every Friday in the year .
16 Accepting the refinery job meant that Pearce was able to exceed his £5 a week goal by £1 , but it was still a meagre wage for the amount of responsibility he shouldered .
17 Since coming back to London on his £10 a week contract he had teamed up again with Stanley Baker and they had gone on the rampage .
18 ‘ I 'll give you one pound a week pocket-money , ’ she said .
19 According to the press , his wife Linda and their child Jade were living in virtual poverty on £52 a week sickness benefit as Fleck squandered the £1,000 a week salary he was being paid in Norwich .
20 In May 1964 I travelled by coach with a couple of willing colleagues and a score or more of sixth-formers to spend a week reading , arguing , and welcoming visitors to a refreshing house on the Gower Peninsular in Wales .
21 Bent almost double , he was still spending forty hours a week gardening for the new owners of The Grange .
22 When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace .
23 A couple who get housing benefit , but no income support , will from 9 October receive £2.88 extra in rent rebate , and a 0.70p a week increase in rate rebate .
24 In Liverpool , all seafarers — seamen , firemen , donkeymen , greasers and similar grades who were the backbone of the NSFU and catering staff and shore gangs who were joining Cotter 's union — received 105 a week increase , abolition of the medical examination and the right to wear the button of the appropriate recognised union .
25 A week fortnight .
26 This one period a week course brings in guest speakers , involves group discussion and co-operation , and encourages sensitivity to adult values .
27 The first was six hours a week teaching YTS students , the second was with the probation service supervising community service work at the weekends .
28 Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do .
29 The primary nurse holds 24 hours , seven days a week responsibility for the care of these clients .
30 Sitting in front of you is a gentleman who was paying what , about a hundred pound a week sir ?
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