Example sentences of "[adv] a fortnight " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , this ceremony was destined to be the last visit to School by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , who died suddenly a fortnight later whilst on a cruise to the West Indies . |
| 2 | Lennox Lewis , as a man who did so much a fortnight ago to give boxing back its dignity , must be allowed to move from ringside tonight to ring next spring if heavyweight boxing is going to complete the process of rehabilitation . |
| 3 | The top players might be exposed to the ruthless rigours of international rugby four times a season , with perhaps a fortnight between games . |
| 4 | Perhaps a fortnight later Brian and I were sent with Minna to join them at Jaipur , where they were guests of the Maharajah . |
| 5 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 6 | Last year when one of them had left after only a fortnight she had given Nurse Rose a travelling clock and a nearly full bottle of Rochas ' Femme . |
| 7 | Only a fortnight ago , the Lithuanian parliament abandoned the constitutional guarantee of the party 's leading role in society , in favour of a multi-party system . |
| 8 | Is it only a fortnight ago , Dorothea asked herself in amazement ? |
| 9 | Even when the blossom was browned by heavy frost just before Christmas , it took only a fortnight to recover . |
| 10 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 11 | So immediately after launching the competition , Hall was having second thoughts about it , and on 28th March , only a fortnight after its inception , wrote an extraordinary letter to the Treasury , killing it off completely . |
| 12 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
| 13 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 15 | Harry said you 'd told him you loved him , but only a fortnight ago you sat here telling me you might well go to Jamaica with Dunbar . ’ |
| 16 | Now , my students find themselves coping with the intricacies of the Negotiator/ Interpreter oral assessments of an examination syllabus with which they are not familiar after only a fortnight into the course . |
| 17 | Sally lost her baby pre-term and was told only a fortnight later , ‘ Just get on with having the next one , dearie . ’ |
| 18 | She had brought the baby to the Lab to see him only a fortnight ago . |
| 19 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 20 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 21 | The evident ascendancy of conservatives , who succeeded in getting one of their number elected as leader of the new party , appeared to bode ill for President Mikhail Gorbachev , the CPSU general secretary , at the crucial 28th CPSU congress , due to open only a fortnight later . |
| 22 | I remember him saying once before I do n't , I do n't know what and er he says it 's only a fortnight ago since you know . |
| 23 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 24 | But the teacher of English knows that " experience " has proved that " science alone " will no longer suffice , especially in a world in which " scarcely a fortnight ago it was only the imaginative vision of one wise man which saved mankind from the awful catastrophe that threatened them . |
| 25 | Just a fortnight previously on a black day for rugby , Gareth Chilcott , the Bath and England prop , was sent off at Gloucester for punching and , in another league match , two Richmond forwards were badly injured in the game with Rugby at the Athletic Ground . |
| 26 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 27 | Why wo n't she take up the offer of just a fortnight 's short-stay ? |
| 28 | Only when he went into the Victoria Nursing Home did she make the trip to Brighton — just a fortnight before he died . |
| 29 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 30 | Just a fortnight ago , 23-year-old Jemson was on the verge of re-joining Forest in a £1million-plus swap deal which would have taken Kingsley Black to Hillsborough . |