Example sentences of "[prep] a week [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 7 June , after a week 's resistance by Major Sylvain Raynal and 600 men , with a heroism hardly equalled in the war , Fort Vaux finally fell . |
| 2 | After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 3 | ‘ A man can be dead tired after a week 's work but he can still give his wife a helping hand . |
| 4 | ‘ After a week 's work it was satisfying to win against Brighton but it was only a glimmer of hope . ’ |
| 5 | On July 12 , 1989 , after a week 's delay , ESA 's Ariane-3 rocket launched Olympus 1 , Europe 's most advanced communications satellite , built by British Aerospace , from Kourou in French Guiana . |
| 6 | On Nov. 22 , after a week 's delay , association agreements between the European Communities ( EC ) and Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland were initialled in Brussels . |
| 7 | She took over after a week 's rehearsal , during which Cuka 's understudy , Gloria Connell , played opposite Crawford . |
| 8 | AFTER a week 's exposure to American television 's sports coverage it was a relief to watch television at home . |
| 9 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 10 | It was voted upon as a whole on 16 October , and taken up again after a week 's break on 25–27 October . |
| 11 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 12 | This curiosity , as much as the prospect of a week 's field research in one of the wildest and loveliest parts of France , had helped to make up her mind . |
| 13 | The prospect of a week 's walking in Borrowdale at the end of July would raise the spirits of any walker , but to spend a week there as Outdoors Action prizewinners was an added bonus . |
| 14 | the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time . |
| 15 | Later that day , and with a good half-inch of our respective hair on the floor of a Soho salon , we hit the black suede pump shop , where I was noiselessly relieved of a week 's rehearsal pay on a pair of boots the same as the ones which fell apart in three months last time and a pair of the suede pumps ( ‘ EVERYBODY 'S wearing them ! ’ ) which , one week later , were flat and circular like dinghies . |
| 16 | It is a painless way to travel with the unrivalled advantage of giving you an extra day 's skiing at each end of a week 's holiday . |
| 17 | I see well it 's convenient that it comes at the end of a week 's holiday is n't it ? |
| 18 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 19 | Two researchers drew their conclusions from a survey of a week 's complaints about dampness at five local authorities . |
| 20 | It was then the best part of a week 's work on Malcolm 's part to get that saw running sweetly . |
| 21 | The success of a week 's promotion at the colony 's airport in September 1990 persuaded Harry Ramsden 's , the world 's only quoted chippie , to set up a restaurant in the heart of Wanchai on Hong Kong Island . |
| 22 | Er a a and then say , well we can take that on board for you if you like but it might be more efficient for you to do the possessions because the civil engineer Leeds , actually is part of your organization a a and it might be more appropriate for you to get those possessions in , for you to decide whether or not you want one big bang o o o of a week 's possession or , or you want to do it i in four hour no-trains periods for the next three years . |
| 23 | So tell me the cost of a week 's charter . ’ |
| 24 | From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th . |
| 25 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 26 | Celebrations went on into the morning and Paul and Fiona , along with many of their friends , stayed on in Jersey for a week 's holiday , before flying to Greece for their honeymoon . |
| 27 | Twenty pounds for a week 's holiday ? |
| 28 | The railways carried middle-class visitors to the seaside in their thousands for a week 's holiday and the urban proletariat on the increasingly popular day trips . |
| 29 | I 'm off with my family for a week 's holiday in Cornwall and Jenny is hoping to take advantage of my absence to get some rest so the office will be ‘ manned ’ all next week by Heidi , though Jenny will be around at home . |
| 30 | Unlike the rest of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ court ’ , he had survived her downfall , and John Major claimed to have taken Crow with him when he flew to Spain for a week 's holiday . |