Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rangers striker has spent two weeks on the sidelines with a calf strain after scoring 32 times in all competitions this season . |
| 2 | AN ATTEMPT by management at Devonport to poach the refitting of a destroyer from Rosyth Royal Dockyard has failed , but the unsolicited bid has caused two weeks ' delay to work on HMS Gloucester . |
| 3 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 4 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 5 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 6 | It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character . |
| 7 | By this time , however , she 'd had three weeks in which to move from bitter , aching despair , to bitter , aching fury . |
| 8 | The boy , who ca n't be identified , hit the headlines in June … after revelations that he 'd spent several weeks at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca at tax payers ' expense . |
| 9 | I have had to spend three-and-a-half weeks in prison . |
| 10 | But Coun Shephard , who is chairman of the district 's environmental health committee , said he had spoken to two families who were told only last month they would have to wait 50 weeks . |
| 11 | So I thought well I do n't have to wait three weeks for mine so next time I do n't feel great I 'm gon na call in and take a couple of days off . |
| 12 | Doing away with heft commissions , not having to wait six weeks or more to be paid , and , most rewardingly , meeting the people who actually look at and buy artworks , make the inevitable disruption a small price to pay . |
| 13 | Now the Home Secretary admitted in the committee stage on the floor of the house that to have had the public inquiry stage would have added seven weeks to the boundary process . |
| 14 | Other landlords would have said three weeks ‘ rent free ’ or ‘ credit ’ or something . |
| 15 | That , despite the recession and the fact that they would have to forfeit two weeks work . |
| 16 | From there I test programme unit , joined er , as a trainee programmer , having spent five weeks here first which was er , first and last . |
| 17 | He still looked rather tired , having spent several weeks in hospital undergoing treatment for manic depression . |
| 18 | We 're preventing caravans entering because we want to er prevent and incursion by the gypsies back into the park again , having spent several weeks trying to get them out , and another week or two er clearing the place up after them . |
| 19 | Having spent some weeks in 1951 as medical officer to a basic training regiment in Aldershot , I recall with amusement many of the subterfuges and deceptions described by Albert Morris . |
| 20 | Quinn counted on Zack having spent three weeks reading miles of inaccurate nonsense in the tabloid papers and having a healthy contempt for the press . |
| 21 | Surely this must be one of the very first models here and at that time I never heard of anyone owning one ( it would have taken six weeks wages to pay for it ) . |
| 22 | While I do not dismiss the care and treatment I have received during those admissions , I did not have to spend many weeks in the ‘ old bins ’ to become aware of their shortcomings as therapeutic environments . |
| 23 | The lovely Accolade trees , having waited two weeks with deep rose-red buds and a few open flowers , burst into copious rows of sumptuous semi-double flowers of pure icing-sugar pink . |
| 24 | Worse still , the unique Gynaecological Oncology Unit at Bart 's was full — she was going to have to wait two weeks for a bed there . |
| 25 | Laura Strutt , 76 , was to have spent 10 weeks in schools in Nepal for Action Aid . |
| 26 | Laura Strutt , 76 , was to have spent 10 weeks in schools in Nepal for Action Aid . |
| 27 | The Cullifords were to have spent 3 weeks visiting their daughter and 3 granchildren in Illinois . |
| 28 | To the man on whose support he would now increasingly depend , he wrote a little before the end , ‘ It is not pleasant , Thomas Poole ! to have worked 14 weeks for nothing — for nothing — nay — to have given the Public in addition to that toil five & 40 pounds ! ’ |
| 29 | We 're very reluctant to have to take three weeks holiday . |
| 30 | He only had to wait 6–8 weeks . |