Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |
| 2 | for the first thirteen weeks of unemployment people are allowed to look for jobs that they want to do or are skilled or experienced to do but after thirteen weeks they will be compelled to take any job that comes along . |
| 3 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 4 | Soon after your arrival you 're interviewed and put on what 's called ‘ house assessment ’ — house cleaning for the first five weeks — whilst the screws work out what would be the best work for you . |
| 5 | Until April 1988 , as a widow under 60 you are entitled to the widow 's allowance for the first 26 weeks after your husband 's death provided he paid enough contributions . |
| 6 | A young childless widow who does not qualify for either of these benefits will no longer be entitled to the weekly national insurance benefit even for the first 26 weeks . |
| 7 | For the first 16 weeks , the DSS paid only half his mortgage . |
| 8 | If your employee qualifies for the higher rate , it should be paid for the first six weeks that higher rate SMP is due . |
| 9 | Higher rate of SMP is payable for the first six weeks of her absence . |
| 10 | In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks . |
| 11 | It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with |
| 12 | Patients who start out using high levels of gum — about one piece every waking hour for the first six weeks of quitting — do better than half-hearted chewers . |
| 13 | For the first six weeks of your maternity leave you will receive of your normal pay , the next twelve weeks will be at normal pay plus SMP , any further period of absence will be unpaid . |
| 14 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 15 | For the first two weeks of the pilot study I was unable to request any X-rays . |
| 16 | For the first two weeks the office treated it as a joke . |
| 17 | The French-language Film Festival taking place at Dublin 's Screen Cinema , College Street for the first two weeks in November has just announced details of a special screening of Louis Grospierre 's ‘ Fatal Lovers ’ , a film shot entirely in the beautiful surrounds of Connemara . |
| 18 | For the first two weeks I was living in a double room with Toril . |
| 19 | Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment . |
| 20 | Just like bees round the Jam Pot FOR the first two weeks no-one came though its doors . |
| 21 | We rode in the field for the first two weeks , and then I had to face the roads and the tractors . |
| 22 | Read through the diet section for the first four weeks and read through the recipes if you are likely to be using them . |
| 23 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
| 24 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 25 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 26 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 27 | For the first few weeks the cast used the bedrooms as dressing rooms . |
| 28 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 29 | Although weak , the baby was basically healthy , but she had to be kept in intensive care for the first few weeks . |
| 30 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |