Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] a week " in BNC.

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1 He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February .
2 After Elinor had spent a week in the nursing home , Annabel and Miranda were allowed to visit .
3 The pollution had occurred a week earlier .
4 The first ceasefire to be brokered by the UN rather than the EC was negotiated in Geneva and came into force on Nov. 23 , after Vance had spent a week monitoring the situation in Yugoslavia .
5 Mr Mobutu said on Thursday he believed he could produce an agreement this month , after Mr Savimbi had had a week of talks with US officials , including 30 minutes with President Bush , and agreed to accept Mr Mobutu as mediator between his Unita guerrilla organisation and the Luanda government .
6 Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own .
7 Derry Development Education Centre has organised a week of action , exhibitions , workshops and educational events to raise awareness of Central America , its people and culture .
8 Mihnea Marmeliuc , who returned as Minister of Labour and Social Security ( a post he had held in the NSF provisional government in January-June 1990 ) , immediately after his nomination was disowned by his National Liberal Party ( the second largest opposition party in parliament after the Hungarian Democratic Union ) ; the NLP had called a week before the reshuffle for the creation of an all-party coalition government .
9 The Sardinian had resigned a week after Zen 's transfer , and he was the only one of his former colleagues whom Zen still saw regularly .
10 Thursday afternoon me and mum looked after Daniel and Benjamin , cos erm , a relative of Sarah 's died a week before and the funeral was Thursday , so , I said to mum yes I 'd go up and help her
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