Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | but it 's like you see , he gives them spellings and he puts perhaps three or four wrong in twenty and they 're supposed to come home and check 'em , meanwhile he leaves them on the board for a whole week , which I think I 've told you before |
| 2 | Draw up your own personal budget for a typical week . |
| 3 | • A 25% reduction for a second week . |
| 4 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 5 | The strike was continued for another four days , partly to show that it had not been panicked by the killings into throwing up its responsibilities and partly to ensure that persons on unemployment insurance and social benefits received payment for a full week . |
| 6 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 7 | In GLCABS , trainee trainers have a centrally based group course for a full week . |
| 8 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |
| 9 | When the navvies turn up for their wages on a Friday afternoon after a hard week of digging up roads , try presenting them with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry . |
| 10 | Pigs in an infected herd become immune to re-infection after a few weeks . |
| 11 | There is nothing more demoralising than coming home with an injury which keeps you out of action for a few weeks . |
| 12 | I have n't eaten a meal or even had a cup of tea for a whole week . ’ |
| 13 | For most people the tidal wave recedes after clinching a deal with the travel agent for a two week package holiday . |
| 14 | Having used the preamp for a few weeks now I have got bored with the presets and want to start using it to create some more familiar sounds . |
| 15 | She thought it was limited to securing £60,000 and would only continue in force for a few weeks . |
| 16 | A stiff neck for a few weeks after a bump was tolerated in the past . |
| 17 | Yeah half term for a nice week . |
| 18 | In the 4th division , Hereford United are back in action after a 2 week lay-off . |
| 19 | The next election will be lost or won not as the result of a few weeks ' electioneering , of media events , of soundbites , but as a result of four years of radical but sensible campaigning in our towns and villages . |
| 20 | He kept pestering the others about what is known as " account trading " ( where one can buy and sell the same stock within a two week period , hoping that the stock price will have risen ) . |
| 21 | It is the second Worlingworth firm to face closure within a few weeks . |
| 22 | Rolls-Royce wrote personally to all its employees yesterday claiming that either a strike or a cut to a 35-hour week would be ‘ disastrous ’ for the company . |
| 23 | Social workers , librarians , planners , architects , housing staff , tax , careers and school officers will be taking part in the vote for six days of strike action over a six week period from October 4 . |
| 24 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 25 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks . |
| 27 | DEC last week reversed a decision of a few weeks standing not to put OSF/1 on future MIPS machines ( UX No 386 ) and reverted to an earlier strategy that will — see front page . |
| 28 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 29 | While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House . |
| 30 | These trousers had fallen from their hanger , and had laid unnoticed in the wardrobe bottom for a damp week . |