Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade incentives , one case free for every ten purchased in the in introductory period which we 've foreseen as four weeks . |
| 2 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 3 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 4 | And I 've got to wait for three weeks before I know ! |
| 5 | This locomotive will stay for one week only . |
| 6 | ‘ I can stay for three weeks , if you 'd like me to , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 8 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 9 | When I was convalescing after that last virus , my Good Samaritans in Cotherstone arranged for me to have the Meals on Wheels service for several weeks . |
| 10 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 11 | There , I did not eat for two weeks , and Bothwell 's children — there were two babies — were born dead . |
| 12 | High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months . |
| 13 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 14 | I do n't know who or what Wide Awake heard during that week but it certainly did n't originate in the Lower Ormeau . |
| 15 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 16 | This visits period lasted for half a term , although for some subject departments it was completed during four weeks . |
| 17 | So great was Rodrigo 's grief that he was almost paralysed for several weeks . |
| 18 | Packed into a huge , windowless shed , flocks of 20,000–100,000 birds are reared for seven weeks and then slaughtered . |
| 19 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 20 | Demand for the services offered by these units has varied considerably with a consequence that the length of time between first contact with the GP and first appointment has fluctuated between two weeks and three months . |
| 21 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 22 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 23 | After this flight the aircraft was de-rigged again and not flown for several weeks . |
| 24 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 25 | In the entrance hall of he present church the 20 bronze plaques commemorate both old and young — from Desmond William Green , who lived for 6 weeks , to many who died in the fullness of age . |
| 26 | Youds was ordered to pay £100 per unit and £30 costs and asked for eight weeks to pay the £630 sum . |
| 27 | ‘ From a personal point of view , I 'd like their bad run to continue for another week . |
| 28 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 29 | Although the clinical signs are abating the bronchi are still inflamed and residual lesions such as bronchial and peribronchial fibrosis may persist for several weeks or months . |
| 30 | A desperately disappointed Shreeves , currently in Cardiff helping Wales prepare for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Romania , was told on Tuesday that he was no longer required at White Hart Lane . |