Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 2 | He not only read widely about German government and trade but worked as an apprentice for a week or two each with painters , weavers , dyers and smiths . |
| 3 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 4 | Well I have n't looked at the board for a week |
| 5 | ‘ On 27 June 1991 the matter came before Judge Lally in the Ontario court and he adjourned the case for a week , I believe because of shortage of time , and meanwhile ordered that the child was not to be removed from the jurisdiction of the Ontario court in the interim . |
| 6 | If you have a job , your personal budget for a week might look something like this : |
| 7 | Yous do your week 's training , why do n't you go to the army cadet for a week ? |
| 8 | After spending one night at the Hilton he reserved the suite for a week and paid in advance . |
| 9 | There was a small flat above the laboratory , where I lived , and sometimes I stayed inside the building for a week and did not go out . |
| 10 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 11 | I have n't cleaned my teeth for a week . ’ |
| 12 | When Matthew Parris and another Tory MP who has since lost his seat tried to live on income support for a week , they both found it virtually impossible . |
| 13 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 14 | Oh these courses mainly I 've been on is being opening the Guild you know , how to open a Guild , how to open you know , a Guild erm and er I 've been on consumer courses erm such as like that paper they just sent this week on what 's on , I mean that is nothing new they 've sent out in today 's Co-op news you know that our own label and all the nutr because the nutriment , I can remember er being at Stanford Hall on , on a consumer course for a week and you see I was on the er when I was know , know longer an employee , I was on member relations you see , representing the Guild and you 'd go through there sometimes and that would probably be a consumer task . |
| 15 | Well of course for a week . |
| 16 | She announced , to my dismay , that she was coming to Salamanca for a week or so . |
| 17 | We were n't doing nine to five but we were working every afternoon for a week . |
| 18 | At Easter Carolyn went to stay with him at university for a week . |
| 19 | Expect to pay between £500 and £1,000 for a week depending on when and where you go . |
| 20 | A child was classified as being temporarily absent if he or she was not in the compound when visited at least three times during a week . |
| 21 | ‘ I shall hang it in the kitchen for a week , ’ she said , ‘ and then you can go out for the evening and I will have bread sauce and fried breadcrumbs , and game chips and red currant jelly and watercress and pheasant . ’ |
| 22 | The greenwoods of Sherwood fill with music and outlaws during a week of jousting , jesting , fancy dress and feasting ! |
| 23 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 24 | In the third tier competition a beleaguered group of Romanian students , with little more than £30 spending money for a week in Hong Kong , still had enough brass to beat Papua New Guinea for the Bowl . |
| 25 | ALTON town mayor Jacqueline Martin , welcomes 30 girls from the Lycée-Collège Notre Dame de la Victoire in Dinan , Brittany , who have been staying with students from Alton Convent for a week . |
| 26 | In an exceptionally dry year ( when straw is already dried out at mowing time ) the corn may be carted without stooking , but normally it should be left in the field for a week or more for the straw to dry and the grain to harden . |
| 27 | Your wage would be five shillings and all found , one evening and one afternoon off a week — you can arrange all that with Miss Mates . |
| 28 | Allen Webb , the jump jockey , will be out of action for a week after injuring his neck while riding out . |
| 29 | The pitch will be out of action for a week for remedial work . |
| 30 | The removal of the male enables the female to settle down in isolation for a week or so prior to giving birth . |