Example sentences of "take two weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 2 | The purpose of the application is to allow him to die through natural causes which , it was thought , would take two weeks at most . |
| 3 | Mrs Mawdsley then asked administration manager Dave McCreary if she could take two weeks ' annual leave and a week 's unpaid leave to go on holiday . |
| 4 | The remuneration for a lecture at the National Gallery that might take two weeks to prepare stands at £50 and in many cases you pay for your own slides . |
| 5 | Ministry of Labour spokesman Avar Arpad said evaluation would take two weeks and that no information would be given in the interim . |
| 6 | Volunteers like Anita Knittel , taking two weeks holiday to help out . |
| 7 | And there still waiting on the twenty fourth May , I said well I have n't got it yet , he said no it 's taking two weeks or so . |
| 8 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 9 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 10 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 11 | They then took two weeks ' holiday and , on their return , gave one week 's notice and left when this notice period expired . |
| 12 | ‘ It was after that weekend gig in Zimbabwe — but I seem to remember that you took two weeks ’ leave immediately after that , so perhaps you never knew . |
| 13 | It took two weeks to weave , working ten hours a day . |
| 14 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 15 | The case had taken two weeks at the Old Bailey , the first devoted to legal argument before the jury was sworn . |
| 16 | I 'm just surprised it 's taken two weeks . ’ |
| 17 | It seems his effort , which is what has taken two weeks ’ — he glanced at Jim Donaldson as he spoke — ‘ to portray himself as the guy trying to help Zack , and all the rest of us here and there as the bad guys making problems , has worked . |
| 18 | The amendment , originally moved by Lord Ferrers in the House of Lords , required that if any Commons vote on a matter devolved to Scotland was passed by the votes of Scottish MPs , then a second vote on the matter would have to be taken two weeks after the first . |
| 19 | It revoked the decision taken two weeks earlier to grant him a visa , on the grounds that he had refused to postpone until after the May 20 elections his planned departure from Switzerland with his wife Queen Anne and eldest daughters Princess Margerita and Princess Anne . |
| 20 | His world started falling apart two days ago when he was found to have failed random drugs tests taken two weeks ago before the games began . |
| 21 | The relocation is expected to take two weeks . |
| 22 | The administration blames the delay on the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife and head of the task force , had to take two weeks off to care for her dying father . |
| 23 | Men with top-level executive positions arrange in advance to take two weeks off to attend the Van Cliburn ; habitual meetings of all description are deferred ; women leave their housekeeping entirely in the hands of their housekeepers . |
| 24 | The ANC president , Nelson Mandela , who has been ordered to take two weeks of complete rest in advance of the election campaign , arrived unexpectedly at the conference . |
| 25 | No he said , take two weeks . |