Example sentences of "than a fortnight [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than a fortnight later a panic call from Mrs Brodowitz revealed that Anita was engaged to a man she had known for only two days — ‘ a real Cockney , who appears to have a lot of money ’ . |
| 2 | Less than a fortnight later , a steel truss rod arrived in the post , with compliments from those nice people at Eggolsheim . |
| 3 | Less than a fortnight ago , the IRA bombed army barracks in Kent . |
| 4 | During the last Energy Question Time , more than a fortnight ago , he promised to write to me but he has failed to do so . |
| 5 | With the election less than a fortnight away , I could hardly believe my luck . |
| 6 | But er it 's less than a fortnight now . |
| 7 | He fastened his seat belt without speaking and the Rover slid gently into Broadway , the road he had crossed less than a fortnight earlier on his way to see Sir Paul Berowne . |
| 8 | It was hardly even a coincidence ( Charles had told his Aquitanian supporters little more than a fortnight before to follow him northwards , and envoys from Lothar found no difficulty in locating Charles at Troyes on Easter Monday , 18 April ) . |