Example sentences of "[art] week or a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One one boy might have had the belt , say once in the week or a month , at Girran . |
| 2 | Erm how often do you play , oh once a week or a couple of times a week , what sort of standard is it and what it 's doing is you 've got an opportunity to sound off about yourself and that 's who we are talking about is n't it ? |
| 3 | Everybody , now you 've also got to accept the high percentage of having nay got a clue , eh what they 're doing , even after a week or a couple of weeks and it should n't er be here , but if you get somebody , nice er Michelle or Cathy , eh , or eh Adel |
| 4 | You can rent a week or a fortnight in one , or buy a share in one , but Cal 's family have bought theirs for themselves . |
| 5 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 6 | If rambling was a leisurely walk in the countryside on a Sunday afternoon , hiking was altogether a more ambitious enterprise , frequently involving a trip further afield for a week or a fortnight 's hard walking using map and compass , regarded as an indispensable accomplishment as the threat of war increased . |
| 7 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |
| 8 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 9 | Well how long how long 's he going , for a week or a fortnight ? |
| 10 | Do you take stock at the end of a day , a week or a year ? |
| 11 | you can have in a week or a day . |
| 12 | Sometimes , because your employee is paid at intervals which are not exact multiples of a week or a month , the earnings period may not match exactly with tax weeks or months . |
| 13 | Learning to change the habits of a lifetime will take longer than a week or a month . |
| 14 | In Kufra district many of the foreigners were black , and Tibbu-speakers from Chad were the majority , a presence which alarmists saw as overwhelming because they counted as resident those who paused for a week or a month on their way north or south . |
| 15 | There are any number of sensible diets set out in paperbacks or reputable magazine supplements , many of them suggesting specimen meals for a week or a month . |
| 16 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
| 17 | Er a hundred pound a week or a month , a hundred pound a month . |