Example sentences of "[adj] than a week [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 2 | Today a couple are on trial for cruelty to a dog , which starved to death after being left in a flat in gloucester for more than a week without food or water . |
| 3 | The prime minister , Ro Jai Bong , submitted his resignation on May 22nd after more than a week of public roasting . |
| 4 | More than a week of savage rioting has left locals smiling and pub tills ringing in the Sheriff Street area of the Republic 's capital . |
| 5 | After more than a week of evidence , twenty seven year old Daniel Ahearn changed his plea on charges of assault and robbery and attempted extortion . |
| 6 | The announcement ended more than a week of consultation and speculation about the scope of the mission during which the administration won UN backing for the operation and sought to involve its allies . |
| 7 | He did n't like to spend more than a week at it . |
| 8 | Kitty never seemed to be able to hold down a job for more than a week at a time , but somehow she was still better dressed than any of us . |
| 9 | Suzanne , 16 , was stripped naked and set alight after allegedly being kidnapped and held captive for more than a week in a house in Moston , Manchester . |
| 10 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 11 | Stephen Pinnock and Lawrence Foster were under the protection of the British United Nations forces in Vitez , Bosnia , today , after more than a week in detention . |
| 12 | For more than a week before the great day we were collecting anything that would burn and literally dozens of individual fires began taking shape in what was known amongst boys as ‘ The Crot ’ . |
| 13 | Fletcher is worried that half of England 's winter tour party will be at home for little more than a week before flying off again for pre-season trips with their counties . |
| 14 | Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government . |
| 15 | Today , little more than a week after the event , I received my copy , to find not only a short account of things said by the Secretary of State at our Anniversary Luncheon , but also our Chairman 's considered response . |
| 16 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's disclosure — less than a week before the Republican convention — stunned Americans who have seen Mr Bush struggle in his bid for re-election . |
| 18 | Less than a week after their first meeting at the poetry reading , she found a message waiting for her , asking her to ring Clelia 's number , and she rang , and Clelia invited herself round to tea . |
| 19 | TIRED but triumphant , Rebecca Stephens arrived home today less than a week after climbing to the top of the world . |
| 20 | Less than a week after achieving full independence on June 19 [ see p. 18159 ] , Kuwait was threatened by a claim to sovereignty over the whole of its territory by the Iraqi leader , Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem . |
| 21 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 22 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 23 | Less than a week after announcing that thirty one coal mines were to close , the President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine has backtracked , and cut the closure list to ten . |
| 24 | Contracts were agreed today , less than a week after Oxford 's last race this term , which was in sharp contrast to this season when problems arose with the days of the opening of the nineteen ninety season . |
| 25 | It could be done in less than a week by men working with vigour , and mostly they did , for their own new lands looked to the forts for protection and warning . |