Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 2 | I am a bit annoyed so I said do n't get messed about I said this is the whole point cos if , if you get over there and there 's and it 's only for a bloody week it 'll be annoying . |
| 3 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 4 | Anyway , it 's only for a few weeks , you said . |
| 5 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 6 | He was able to get away for a two week holiday in Switzerland at the end of August , where he relaxed and swam in Lake Geneva : it was the one European country which he found not to have changed out of all recognition , and he took an annual holiday there . |
| 7 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 8 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 9 | Just for a few weeks . ’ |
| 10 | She made a mental note to check the tariff later with the receptionist — there would be little point in living so comfortably for a few weeks if the bill swallowed most of her wages at the end of it . |
| 11 | In succeeding years of wartime the annual conference continued to take place , though not at the seaside and not usually for a full week . |
| 12 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 13 | ‘ Miss Maxwell was perfectly normal in her behaviour at school — except that she was perhaps too much the model student — but every so often she would disappear , usually for about three days , once for a whole week . |
| 14 | and I 'd already put my other form in like to er I , and I was raging cos like I could 've got and sat in here for a fucking week |
| 15 | I 've heard in fac er in my factory , I 've heard it in other places , right , when a temporary l temporary or casual worker goes down the road , or a part-timer work 's cut short , ah it 's only a casual and he only expected to be here for a few weeks . |
| 16 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 17 | Not even for a few weeks . |
| 18 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 19 | It 's been kept on there for a second week with good houses and rave reviews from Time Out , What 's On and Spare Rib . |
| 20 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
| 21 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ said Li Shai Tung , brightening , ‘ why not take Jelka there for a few weeks ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 24 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 25 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 26 | For the reasons specified above , the 50 schools sampled were asked to provide us both with their overall attendance rate and the numbers of pupils absent for a specific week in June and again for a specific week in November . |