Example sentences of "more than a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH more than a week has passed since Hanson bought 2.82% of Britain 's ICI , the only certainty about that stake is that the world 's fourth-largest chemicals company will never be the same again . |
| 3 | The prime minister , Ro Jai Bong , submitted his resignation on May 22nd after more than a week of public roasting . |
| 4 | And if some did , the answer was No — or Not for more than a week . |
| 5 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 6 | For more than a week , a group of grey-suited former communists has played with the nation 's future with an irresponsibility and spite that would be risible were it not so dangerous . |
| 7 | ‘ But it should n't last more than a week or so . |
| 8 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 9 | He had little more than a week , as his intention was to return to Jalo by 10 January . |
| 10 | If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out . |
| 11 | An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week . |
| 12 | On Thursday 23 May 1974 , little more than a week after Jinky had set out on his transatlantic crossing , the player was the focus of a controversial legal wrangle when a judge at Airdrie Sheriff Court postponed a trial involving the Celtic winger to allow him to prepare for Scotland 's forthcoming World Cup campaign in Germany . |
| 13 | Not more than a week old , Father Poole surmised . |
| 14 | For more than a week before the great day we were collecting anything that would burn and literally dozens of individual fires began taking shape in what was known amongst boys as ‘ The Crot ’ . |
| 15 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 16 | He did n't like to spend more than a week at it . |
| 17 | Suzanne , 16 , was stripped naked and set alight after allegedly being kidnapped and held captive for more than a week in a house in Moston , Manchester . |
| 18 | Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week . |
| 19 | Taylor wo n't know until tomorrow whether David Batty of Leeds is fit , while Paul Gascoigne , despite his wonder goal in Seville , has been suffering from 'flu for more than a week . |
| 20 | It would be more than a week since he had thought of Millet . |
| 21 | More than a year since they had last spoken , and more than a week since he had last examined his memory of those meetings . |
| 22 | For more than a week we had suffered high-pressure gloom in the south of England but on the day of my flight we enjoyed 8/8 blue with not a bump in the air — Wing Commander 's weather ! |
| 23 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 24 | At most I get just enough to wet the bottom of the collection cup , and sometimes none for more than a week . |
| 25 | Temporary jobs lasting more than a week can be considered in terms of whether they open or reopen rights to Unemployment Benefit . |
| 26 | Though he had been in the district for no more than a week , he felt he knew it well . |
| 27 | You wo n't be able to keep it up for more than a week . ’ |
| 28 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 29 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 30 | Mum and Dad did n't find out about Flupper and us for more than a week . |