Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 2 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 4 | However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site . |
| 5 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 6 | Mm , there 's a lot of people who 've erm , I mean a lot of s all the T V companies are putting programmes on for next week |
| 7 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 8 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 9 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 10 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |
| 11 | You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks . |
| 12 | I could n't lie down for five weeks ! |
| 13 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 14 | He 'll not come down for two week ! |
| 15 | He could n't lie down for seven weeks because of problems with his head , neck and pelvis , ’ recalled Knight . |
| 16 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 17 | Mr Hannis said he took two people in for ten weeks . |
| 18 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 19 | As the effects of training increase in an S shaped curve and plateau in about 13–14 weeks , patients leaving supervised programmes should continue long term exercise after adequate counselling . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
| 21 | I bought a copy in of last weeks Daily Telegraph because interestingly enough , the press seems to be latching on to this er not playing by the rules . |
| 22 | Health chiefs admit that the queue had built up to ‘ unacceptable levels ’ but claim they are now down to 10 weeks . |
| 23 | Health chiefs say the waiting time is down to 10 weeks . |
| 24 | Brought him down to four weeks . |
| 25 | Some organisations , such as the World Health Organisation , want it brought down to 22 weeks . |
| 26 | Hence applications must be in by nine weeks time , nine weeks hence at the very least . |
| 27 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 28 | Among the weird and wacky weather facts he has accumulated over the years : IN the severe winter of 1814 the Thames froze over for nine weeks . |
| 29 | The Manchester City of Brian Kidd and Mike Channon took over for five weeks until Clough climbed back and proved unshiftable . |
| 30 | for two weeks switching over after two weeks and repeat the same process , at the same time the other two groups will be doing personal statements . |