Example sentences of "[det] than a week [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today a couple are on trial for cruelty to a dog , which starved to death after being left in a flat in gloucester for more than a week without food or water . |
| 2 | After more than a week of evidence , twenty seven year old Daniel Ahearn changed his plea on charges of assault and robbery and attempted extortion . |
| 3 | The announcement ended more than a week of consultation and speculation about the scope of the mission during which the administration won UN backing for the operation and sought to involve its allies . |
| 4 | Stephen Pinnock and Lawrence Foster were under the protection of the British United Nations forces in Vitez , Bosnia , today , after more than a week in detention . |
| 5 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 6 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 7 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 8 | Contracts were agreed today , less than a week after Oxford 's last race this term , which was in sharp contrast to this season when problems arose with the days of the opening of the nineteen ninety season . |
| 9 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 10 | It could be done in less than a week by men working with vigour , and mostly they did , for their own new lands looked to the forts for protection and warning . |