Example sentences of "week for [adj] weeks " in BNC.

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1 All made a commitment to attend the group once a week for 13 weeks .
2 You will be asked to complete an application form and subsequently to attend an ACET training course one evening a week for six weeks .
3 According to an abstract of the time , ‘ Half a pint a day six days a week for six weeks for patients suffering from rheumatic gout and similar affections was advised by the late Sir F. Treves .
4 Local education authorities also run courses which typically require attendance for two hours a week for six weeks , in the evenings .
5 It was assumed that schools would be using the materials and theme for about twelve periods a week for six weeks , as Miss Garnett noted : " This is probably as long as the steam stays in a theme for this age , and nobody should feel embarrassed about pulling out of it quicker if it seems right to do so " ( Leicester/Leicestershire Curriculum Development Project 1970 : I ) .
6 It meant clients received £36 a week for 52 weeks .
7 Sometimes we will arrange to meet once a week for five weeks to talk and pray .
8 Cheri saves her pocket money of $1.50 a week for five weeks , then spends all her money on comic books which cost 25¢ each .
9 BUSINESSWOMAN Louise I'Anson spent one day a week for five weeks attending council-run courses and has emerged feeling even more confident about her plans for the future .
10 Everyone at every level was involved and it all went without any major problems : great teamwork , 24-hours-a-day , seven days a week for five weeks , commissioning kit , painting , erecting racking and shifting all the ancillary equipment .
11 The evidence from giving preoperative epoetin to anaemic Jehovah 's Witnesses is that 75–150 units/kg three times a week for 2–4 weeks is adequate .
12 All the students are undertaking work placements in local businesses one day a week for 12 weeks .
13 One standing forecast coupon and you 're in with a chance every week for 8–60 weeks .
14 Thus , for example , although a miner might not personally believe that a university professor teaching three hours a week for 25 weeks of the year is doing a more worthy or important job than himself , he will nevertheless rank this occupation above his own in the construction of a prestige hierarchy because he has learnt that ‘ professors are more important than miners ’ .
15 Look at the habitat once or twice a week for several weeks .
16 ‘ You see , I need to make at least fifty pounds a week for thirty-six weeks a year . ’
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