Example sentences of "a weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GWR semaphores were replaced a weeks after this , losing the character of a much older ‘ corporate identity ’ . |
| 2 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 3 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 4 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 5 | Er because it was more than a weeks wages . |
| 6 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 7 | If I 'm not teaching I 'm marking in th to actually get a lecture through cos I was given this with about a weeks ' notice you see , so I did n't have a chance to prepare the stuff for this course other than as we go along Right ? |
| 8 | then you probably have to take it from that and I think you 'll find there 's a weeks work on there . |
| 9 | The most people that we could get together in a weeks notice , we have to put the actual amalgamation of the team |
| 10 | that maybe it should n't have been a we a weeks notice then . |
| 11 | So I rang him a bit later , Now look , we 've got a weeks notice , we know it 's gon na take some time . |
| 12 | Andrew Pask was remanded in custody and will appear in court again in a weeks time . |
| 13 | The news came only a weeks after another major Abingdon employer , Abingdon Carpets , announced a hundred and fifty jobs would go with the transfer of its distribution centre from the town to Bradford . |
| 14 | Er , by all means , go , go through all this stuff in a weeks ' time and throw out th , those things you do n't need . |
| 15 | We 've still got that tape for a couple of a weeks . |
| 16 | I do n't think people buy it so much on have you seen , they 're going to give you a weeks ' television |
| 17 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 18 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 19 | She said and then I have two weeks erm homework to mark and then we have a weeks holiday I thought well that 's two weeks |
| 20 | And then you have a we sorry , I 'm sorry I ca n't do it that week , I 've got a weeks holiday . |
| 21 | Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ? |
| 22 | got a weeks homework |
| 23 | Seventy-six Romanians who came to Britain for a Pontins holiday are asking for political asylum , they 're among two hundred of their countrymen who arrived at a Pontins camp near Bristol on Sunday for a weeks stay . |