Example sentences of "week [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family credit lasts for 26 weeks at a time , then you will have to reapply . |
| 2 | Family credit lasts for 26 weeks at a time , then you will have to reapply . |
| 3 | Family credit lasts for 26 weeks at a time , then you will have to reapply . |
| 4 | Colleges of Education , especially Aberdeen and Craigie in Scotland , offer school-based in-service training under the tutelage of college staff who live in the area for several weeks at a time . |
| 5 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 6 | It should cover three weeks at a time , with allowance for holiday and sick leave . |
| 7 | The desert is a place of scorching heat by day and bitter cold by night and the mission would find little water for themselves or their animals for weeks at a time . |
| 8 | Now , having been stuck behind the desk for weeks at a time , he does n't need asking twice to unlock the cases and parade his collection … |
| 9 | After teaching English as a foreign language for many years , Pauline wanted to establish a house in a country setting where her students could stay for up to three or four weeks at a time . |
| 10 | It felt an ordinary place , but my father 's friend , Billy Llewelyn , could play the saw , grow black carnations , go without sleep for three weeks at a time and expand his chest from thirty-six inches to fifty-two inches in three breaths . |
| 11 | As Mr Jones points out , losing a student for 12 weeks at a time is extremely disruptive to a small office and costly to the practice . |
| 12 | The boy would spend a few weeks at a time with his father and when Sheila one day came to collect Scott , she mentioned that she felt she might well marry again . |
| 13 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 14 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |
| 15 | It was irregular because his duties took him out of touch for weeks at a time . |
| 16 | He started visiting Utah regularly — ‘ Stan 's attitude to cooking is similar to mine and , of course , the snow is good ! ’ — staying in Pons ' home sometimes for several weeks at a time . |
| 17 | Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time . |
| 18 | State-controlled telecommunications equipment supplier Italtel SpA will shed 1,000 jobs this year , as part of its four-year restructuring plan and expects to save $22m in labour costs this year as a result ; Italtel is also planning to lay off a total of 16,500 people temporarily for five weeks at a time this year . |
| 19 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 20 | The use of time out from direct managerial responsibilities , and a system of rotation for perhaps several weeks at a time , would ensure the practitioner could concentrate on developing a clinical teaching role without the burdens of service demands . |
| 21 | Streatham Hill Theatre ( now a bingo hall ) was on the pre-West End circuit , and we had chorus girls staying with us for weeks at a time . |
| 22 | The resources support team organized by Mr Ryder 's advisory section brought together experienced MROs and school librarians ; the team as a whole planned a range of activities , including exhibitions , in-service training , and the compilation of catalogues and lists , and in addition supplied pairs of specialists who would " " immerse themselves " in schools for up to several weeks at a time building up a resources centre and advising on the use of resources generally . " |
| 23 | The fundamental alternatives are to advertise in bursts of , perhaps , three weeks at a time , or on a more spread-out , ‘ drip ’ basis . |
| 24 | When water levels drop the shoreline remains green , for it is seeded with a special grass which can survive being submerged for weeks at a time . |
| 25 | Soil which is waterlogged for weeks at a time will make matters worse , and can even kill plants without their first being weakened by cold . |
| 26 | He was away for weeks at a time and would return laden with gigots of Algerian lamb , jars of oil , sacks of pulses ; Madame ran the propriété , which was large , and not labour-intensive ( words that entered Frederica 's vocabulary ca. 1960 ) . |
| 27 | Do you sometimes find that you are doing very little in the way of physical exercise for several weeks at a time ? |
| 28 | So much so that for weeks at a time I could live without eidetiking at all . |
| 29 | Thus the person being cared for must be receiving attendance allowance , in recognition that s/he is ‘ severely disabled ’ ; the carer must not be in full-time education or earning ( from April 1992 ) more than £40 a week ; carers can not take more than four weeks ' holiday in any six-month period , nor can the disabled person be in hospital for more than four weeks at a time . |
| 30 | His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ . |