Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now the moose-hunting season — not a safe time to be creeping through the woods on a wild wolf chase , and so unless someone shoots her , Ylva has a few weeks grace . |
| 2 | WITH the Interim results a few weeks behind us , here are some of the interpretations of the City journalist . |
| 3 | ‘ I am delighted and this caps a memorable week . |
| 4 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 5 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 6 | It takes a few weeks to establish in the tank before it begins to grow . |
| 7 | Come back in a fortnight and we 'll check its progress , but you 'll find it takes a few weeks to really heal properly because we use that toe a great deal for balance . ’ |
| 8 | Recorders and Assistant Recorders are senior barristers or solicitors who sit as judges a few weeks each year . |
| 9 | He seized her hands in his , and mindful of her enthusiastic response to his advances a few weeks ago , took her in her arms and planted a kiss on her cheek . |
| 10 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 11 | This is the story of one man who , at 80 , still works a 50-hour week despite having retired from all Samaritan offices except that of Founder , and who still cares ‘ very passionately about human suffering , and would like to continue to do something to alleviate it , on however modest a scale ’ . |