Example sentences of "[num ord] week [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a week on the superb white sand beaches of the Maldives , why not spend a second week discovering the beauty of Sri Lanka ? |
| 2 | Said , alright , I said the first week said the first week I said , then it 'll |
| 3 | He spent the entire first week reading the plan over and over again . |
| 4 | MR CHRIS Patten , the Conservative Party chairman whose defeat in Bath last week marred the Prime Minister 's election triumph , is considering an offer of the governorship of Hong Kong . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 6 | SunSoft last week launched the SunSoft Press , a publishing group to develop , market and distribute books on Solaris and associated Sun products to users in partnership with publishers Ziff-Davis and the Professional Technical Reference Division of Prentice Hall , part of Simon & Schuster . |
| 7 | NEWPORT , who last week suffered the indignity of a record score by the All Blacks in Wales , are looking for two new coaches . |
| 8 | Mercedes last week announced the car with which it will defend its world sportscar crown and begin preparations for an F1 assault . |
| 9 | THE GOVERNMENT last week announced the worst unemployment figures for four years . |
| 10 | IBM 's Pennant Systems last week announced the extension of its Advanced Function Printing into the AIX/6000 environment and WISIWYG viewing on PS/2 screens under Windows . |
| 11 | Its Sun Microsystems Computer Corp unit last week announced the Network Terminal Server , which enables 64 terminals or other serial peripheral devices to be connected ‘ easily and economically ’ anywhere on a Unix host-based local area network . |
| 12 | Hyundai Electronic America 's Axil Workstations Inc is bent on conquering the slippery slopes of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc cloning , and last week announced the Axil-220 , a MicroSparc knock-off of the Sparc Classic undercutting Sun by pricing it at $3,600 in single quantities and letting it run Solaris 1.1 as well as 2. x . |
| 13 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 14 | NCube Inc , one of the small band of sturdy massively parallel processing pioneers , reckons that it may need to crash the entry price of its machines to popularise the concept , and last week announced the nCube 2E series , starting with just eight and going to 128 of the company 's proprietary processors , with an entry price of $30,000 . |
| 15 | In an apparent effort to make Solaris 2.0 almost indistinguishable from Destiny , SunSelect last week announced the immediate availability of NetWare Sunlink software , for integrating Novell Inc NetWare networks with Sparc and Solaris environments . |
| 16 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 17 | ‘ We had 22 teachers in here last week watching the same rehearsal because their children are doing a project on it and as a result of that we have had 260 kids watching the rehearsal this week . |
| 18 | Ron Skates , president and chief executive officer of Data General Corp and senior vice president , Tom West , were in the UK last week to bolster the company 's bid for a share of the UK Home Office 's Unix System Environment — House 2 — contract for open systems hardware , which is worth up to £100m split between three suppliers . |
| 19 | IBM Corp last week boosted the versatility of its Power Visualisation System , a parallel server for generating and manipulating complex images at high speed in applications such as medicine and geophysics , and cut prices on the thing by 25% to 40% , lowering the entry point to $320,000 from $528,000 . |
| 20 | He resumed his attack last week labelling the population control programme as ‘ sheer barbarity ’ . |
| 21 | More than 300,000 Hindus had converged on the town last week to destroy the temple . |
| 22 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA : Taking its cue from East Germany , parliament last week dropped the leading-role clause from the constitution after the growth of public protest . |
| 23 | The government and the ANC proposed after talks last week to hold the two-day planning conference next week , but Mr Meyer said yesterday that the ANC had accepted the new date . |
| 24 | The DVLA claims it is working as normal after a one-day strike last week delayed the mailing of vehicle tax reminders . |
| 25 | Word from inside Digital Equipment Corp last week says the company is pretty much ‘ paralysed ’ because of the reorganisation into business units and the fact that ‘ no one is in place . ’ |
| 26 | McKibben had appeared on TV last week escorting the coffin of terror boss Jimmy Brown — and that cost him his life . |
| 27 | He was only round last week to collect the month 's rent . |
| 28 | When we phoned HP last week to confirm the destination , our dreams were shattered with the news that the specs are only intended to protect against the dazzling blues , reds and greens of a new colour printer it is launching — not a single sunbeam . |
| 29 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |
| 30 | A man of 65 , from Bristol , last week became the first British patient to benefit from the technique , known as rotational angioplasty . |