Example sentences of "[adj] week or [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
2 | Instead , control your impatience and wait for another week or so before testing the material again . |
3 | Edward and Reggie were to spend six weeks or so with his cousins in Pontardulais , while Ernest and Oscar stayed with relations in Cwmavon . |
4 | It 's alw always very useful that er erm if we have to people have to ask us to wait around for them for five or six weeks or sometimes on a three monthly er er resignation thing it er |
5 | Doing away with heft commissions , not having to wait six weeks or more to be paid , and , most rewardingly , meeting the people who actually look at and buy artworks , make the inevitable disruption a small price to pay . |
6 | The reduction in follow up procedures to one every 20 weeks or so for C2 tumours and 10 weeks or so for C3 tumours is a useful improvement in follow up requirements . |
7 | The prepatent period ranges from 5-6 weeks in chicks to eight weeks or more in adult birds . |
8 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
9 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
10 | Weight is very quickly lost in the first week or so of most diets , but slows down somewhat after that . |
11 | After the first week or so of following the diet , with any possible withdrawal symptoms behind you , things should look up . |
12 | Within my first week or so in the House , I was sitting in the Smoking Room reading a book . |
13 | This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers . |
14 | ‘ After Winston had retired , he used to give lunch parties every two weeks or so in the basement of his house in Hyde Park Gate . |
15 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
16 | Eradication was defined as inability to show H pylori four weeks or more after discontinuation of study treatment by all four tests . |
17 | The French company currently needs four weeks or so from the IBM announcement of new RS/6000s to integrate its set of Distributed Computing Model distributed computing framework — a major differentiator from the IBM versions , claims Bull . |
18 | The reduction in follow up procedures to one every 20 weeks or so for C2 tumours and 10 weeks or so for C3 tumours is a useful improvement in follow up requirements . |
19 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
20 | Case studies have been updated and will be sent to participants within the next week or so with other Conference papers . |
21 | He says that it can be seen for the next week or so in the west , but it 's too faint to be seen with the naked eye . |