Example sentences of "[adj] for a [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clough wrote : ‘ I felt angry , frustrated , disappointed , useless and unused for a whole week . |
| 2 | IF you are planning to take part in the sponsored step aerobics session for the day care centre sit tight for a few weeks . |
| 3 | Remember , if you are sick for a second week , we shall require a medical certificate . |
| 4 | I was really ill for a few weeks . |
| 5 | Anna was unconscious for a full week . |
| 6 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 7 | You do n't want a firm whose work of good , but who may leave you high and not-so-dry for a few weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks . |
| 9 | They just do n't like to get involved in something which is ongoing for a few weeks you know . |
| 10 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 11 | It might mean that the same ten pupils were absent for the whole week ; or it might mean that overall , five pupils were absent for a whole week , plus two pupils absent for two days , plus 21 pupils absent for one day . |
| 12 | It was alright for a few weeks and then it began to look very anaemic and sorry for itself . |
| 13 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |