Example sentences of "weeks ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
2 | For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases . |
3 | ‘ I do n't mind , ’ he mumbled unconvincingly , ‘ I 've only got two weeks ' vacation . |
4 | He was the first man to organize an eight hour day , and two weeks ' vacation with pay . |
5 | During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war . |
6 | This tour of duty also included my first spell in command when Phil took his three weeks ' leave . |
7 | AN ATTEMPT by management at Devonport to poach the refitting of a destroyer from Rosyth Royal Dockyard has failed , but the unsolicited bid has caused two weeks ' delay to work on HMS Gloucester . |
8 | ‘ In two months ’ time , but it 's two weeks ' journey and |
9 | Five patients had experienced symptoms suggestive of cow 's milk allergy ( urticaria ( one ) , loose stools ( one ) , vomiting ( two ) , diarrhoea ( one ) ) and were admitted for diagnostic milk challenge after four weeks ' milk elimination . |
10 | If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks . |
11 | As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service . |
12 | Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late . |
13 | Mrs Brown — 6 weeks ' assessment |
14 | Nevertheless for many industrial workers the station was their gateway to one week 's or two weeks ' escape from mill and factory , and they rejoiced at its sight . |
15 | The officials finally admitted they were wrong — and paid Pete his two weeks ' benefit of £84 . |
16 | The aid formula of the House bill provided the unemployed with six , 13 or 20 additional weeks ' benefit depending on their state of residence . |
17 | We have innumerable paths that need constant work but due to financial pressures the lucky ones might only receive around six weeks ' work a year . |
18 | After two weeks ' work the catapult was finally ready . |
19 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
20 | Matty attempts to clear her desk by doing two weeks ' work in three days . |
21 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
22 | After seven weeks ' work on the part of many army personnel , we were ready to begin . |
23 | I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial . |
24 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
25 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
26 | The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could . |
27 | He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work . |
28 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
29 | Both the French and Scottish groups undertook two weeks ' work experience and a week of language and social activity abroad . |
30 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |