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 .
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