Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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1 | " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit . |
2 | Other people who have contributed money all their lives to the NHS since it began have to wait 51 weeks for a hip replacement . |
3 | Non-fundholders have to wait ten weeks in Guildford for an ultra-sound scan ; fund-holders can have one within two weeks . |
4 | At present farmers have to wait three weeks between spreading the sludge on their fields and allowing cattle to graze . |
5 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
6 | According to them I have had four weeks off in ten years . |
7 | Hereford have got two weeks off now but there 's plenty of football coming up … here 's the fixture list for this week … |
8 | so you have to give four weeks . |
9 | Their last album , ‘ Churchtown ’ was their first on a major label and the band have spent recent weeks in West Cork , writing and demoing material for their third LP . |
10 | It is the finale of two of the recruit courses : the Regular recruits have spent eight weeks at the WRAC Centre completing an intensive course which provides a young woman with all the basic military skills Which she will require to be able to take her place alongside her male counterpart in the modern British Army . |
11 | Mr Shara said Damascus put proposals to Mr Christopher on resolving the fate of the deportees , who have spent nine weeks in a makeshift camp between Israeli and Lebanese lines , so that peace talks can be resumed as soon as possible . |
12 | There is an old Sioux saying : ‘ You can not understand a man until you have walked two weeks in his moccasins . ’ |
13 | Representatives of fishing nations have ended three weeks of talks in New York with agreement to hold more talks on ways of preventing the collapse of marine fish stocks because of overfishing . |