Example sentences of "in two weeks " in BNC.
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1 | Having failed to raise sufficient funds for such an undertaking in America , Field came to Britain and , supported by Samuel Morse , their target of £350,000 was passed in two weeks ; the Atlantic Telegraph Company was registered on the October 20 , 1856 . |
2 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — El Salvador 's President , Alfredo Cristiani , announced in a speech to the UN that he would make a proposal for a ceasefire in his country 's 10-year-old civil war at a meeting with FMLN rebels in two weeks ' time . |
3 | His influence in stemming the Swansea flow could not be overstated and he now looks certain to face his fellow countrymen in two weeks ' time . |
4 | The disclosure comes as Rolls-Royce , one of four blue-chip companies selected for strike ballots at key sites in two weeks , said there would be lay-offs and redundancies among its 37,000 workforce if action goes ahead . |
5 | A compromise with far tighter controls over the CITES-monitored quota system is likely to be agreed before the end of the conference in two weeks ' time . |
6 | The interior ministers of Peru , Bolivia and Colombia and representatives of Spain , France and Italy are to meet in Madrid in two weeks ' time to discuss drug trafficking . |
7 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |
8 | This year as well as a revival of the updated Hansel and Gretel in two weeks time , we have the most fizzing pantomime in years , Prokofiev 's Love for Three Oranges . |
9 | His next race will be at Chepstow in two weeks time . |
10 | The winners meet Halifax , of the Second Division , on the same ground in two weeks . |
11 | His Francesca was a rising star in the Department of Trade and Industry , and they planned to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with a skiing holiday , due to start in two weeks ' time . |
12 | Australian wool prices have jumped 17% in two weeks and are now only 18% below the reserve price of A$7 a kilo that was abandoned in February . |
13 | The chief executive of State of Israel Bonds , Meyir Rosenne , says that he expects the issue to sell out in two weeks , something that would take him ten weeks in normal times . |
14 | A second application in two weeks , followed by another more careful combing , would completely rid him of the pests . |
15 | The defeat of Redgrave and Pinsent is unlikely to prevent their selection for the Olympic coxless pairs and it could prove to have been a useful warning to the world champions to raise their performance for Cologne in two weeks ' time , when all the potential Olympic crews will have their first try-out . |
16 | Tony Stafford talks to the former owner of Vernons Pools who is hoping for a jackpot dividend in two weeks ' time with Rodrigo de Triano and Musicale |
17 | But now , with hopes of success in both Guineas races in two weeks ' time , and the renaissance of Manton under his trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam , the leading British owner-breeder is better placed than at any period in the past decade . |
18 | At Cologne , in two weeks ' time , an eight and two separate fours will compete . |
19 | ‘ See you in two weeks then ’ said the consultant . |
20 | In two weeks they were all vandalized . |
21 | There would be many more to come when Roger Corman got into his stride in the early Sixties turning out back-to-back movies , using the same set and actors in two weeks or less , with self-imposed budgets of under $30,000 . |
22 | A moid of the whole clan is called in two weeks , at the start of October . |
23 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
24 | The 1968 Transport Act restricted driving hours to a maximum of 130 in two weeks , which effectively ended the practice of working double shifts . |
25 | In two weeks he transmitted an answer to the Royal Society in a paper that is often cited as a prime example of the scientific method . |
26 | Over 700m of tunnel were driven in two weeks of March 1989 compared with only 1,000m during 13 weeks in the summer of 1988 . |
27 | To enter the rally was Faith 's idea , and at the start I intended to fly only part of the trip — home from Egypt in two weeks . |
28 | ‘ In two weeks I shall be taking you and Corrie Palmer on the train to London . |
29 | In two weeks it 'd be Christmas . |
30 | THE SUNDAYS issue their first single on Parlophone in two weeks . |