Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Lucy managed to convey that she intended to stay for several days , or perhaps for even a week . |
| 2 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 3 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 4 | And we get away with twice a week . |
| 5 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 6 | Cassie stayed at her family home for nearly a week , but on the Monday , with her parents due to leave the following morning , she packed her bags and prepared to go . |
| 7 | The operation had apparently been quite straightforward ; Kirsty was home in under a week and back at work after a month , with no obvious after-effects . |
| 8 | I have now been here for over a week , and am beginning to get into the swing of things . |
| 9 | ‘ You said you were here for just a week ? ’ |
| 10 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 11 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 12 | ‘ We ought to get Karen here at least a week before she leaves , ’ he said to Celia that weekend , ‘ so she knows the routine . ’ |
| 13 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 14 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 15 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 16 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |
| 17 | She told him that she did not play again for over a week . |
| 18 | I was able to travel quite freely for about a week , and then after that , I was n't able to go out at all . |
| 19 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 20 | Indeed , ever since the Queensberry era began in 1892 every weight division has had a high proportion of middle-class world champions and contenders — men for whom deprivation was having T-bone steaks only twice instead of thrice a week [ see table ] . |
| 21 | The cleaning-lady comes once a day now , instead of once a week . |