Example sentences of "week [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next six weeks or so , gradually reduce feeding to the recommended winter rate , and water less frequently , according to each plant 's needs . |
| 2 | Edward and Reggie were to spend six weeks or so with his cousins in Pontardulais , while Ernest and Oscar stayed with relations in Cwmavon . |
| 3 | They show the possibility of identifying themes vital to national development like ‘ saving our soil ’ , ‘ clean water ’ or ‘ feeding ourselves ’ ; of designing carefully selected units of material to cover perhaps two weeks ' learning with teachers trained to handle them ; of arranging the school programmes of studies so that they allow in every term , a period , two weeks or so , available for such common projects . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're off the road for six weeks or so , until the tour starts at the end of October . |
| 5 | Six weeks or so later my novel The Rivers of Babylon came out . |
| 6 | If you have an hour to spare every two weeks or so , and think you would make a good listener , our ‘ Caring Officer ’ would love to hear from you . |
| 7 | Let's meet again in a couple of weeks or so . |
| 8 | ‘ After Winston had retired , he used to give lunch parties every two weeks or so in the basement of his house in Hyde Park Gate . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope to be home in two weeks or so . ’ |
| 10 | Once a chick bred in captivity can fly — at the age of eight weeks or so — it can be taken from its parents and released to hunt for itself for a month . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the tight filming schedule could not wait for just two weeks or so until a suitable engine ( ie a 4F 0-6-0 ) arrived at Bury . |
| 12 | ‘ For the first three weeks or so , I wo n't be on The Word much , ’ Mark explains , casually kicking his feet up on to his agent 's gleaming mahogany desk . |
| 13 | The French company currently needs four weeks or so from the IBM announcement of new RS/6000s to integrate its set of Distributed Computing Model distributed computing framework — a major differentiator from the IBM versions , claims Bull . |
| 14 | Dealers at one licensed dealer would habitually sell a stock whose price would rise for a couple of weeks or so although not enough to cover the spread — before reverting . |
| 15 | Erm wh what I would suggest is the three that are on the group and if John 's going to be off maybe somebody else from NALGO would , would er step in to the group , get together over the next two weeks or so and er try to jointly produce a Northumberland newsletter ? |
| 16 | Thousands of the marchers were inevitably crushed beneath the wheels of the traffic but still , day after day for two weeks or so , they kept coming . |
| 17 | They might on occasion last several days rather than one day or less , but we seldom heard of them lasting longer than two weeks or so . |
| 18 | I 'm going to be doing one or two more over the next erm few weeks or so . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're not seriously going to tell me that a relationship like that just ends , when the guy still meets your mother every few weeks or so ? ’ |
| 20 | It eventually cleared and after breakfast they prepared to go to Raasay ; they would see the Mackinnons again in two weeks or so . |
| 21 | Though the moment of penetration is almost painless , the presence of the botfly causes a lot of irritation , and by the time it has been in residence for three weeks or so , the resulting lump is quite painful . |
| 22 | Over the last six weeks or so I 'll tell you the places I 've been and the people I 've seen in the National Health Service . |
| 23 | You come round in three weeks or so , they 'll be a show worth seeing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So , back to work in two weeks or so and then where ? ’ he continued in the same quiet voice . |
| 25 | After six weeks or so , three days a week , with the Factory Wilcock received hints that an article might be a good idea . |
| 26 | Every six weeks or so , we discuss which piece or pieces of writing should be selected to represent their best work so far . |
| 27 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 28 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 29 | Once initial control has been achieved , a maintenance sclerotherapy programme should be instituted with repeated injections every three weeks or so until thrombosis of the varices has been achieved and subsequent periodic checks every three to six months to ensure maintenance of variceal occlusion . |
| 30 | The reduction in follow up procedures to one every 20 weeks or so for C2 tumours and 10 weeks or so for C3 tumours is a useful improvement in follow up requirements . |