Example sentences of "than a fortnight " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer than a fortnight , hopefully . |
| 2 | The descent , mirrored by a similar plunge against the dollar , has taken little more than a fortnight . |
| 3 | Super-shy George Michael bought his Californian dream home for £3 million two years ago , but he 's spent less than a fortnight in the futuristic house . |
| 4 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 5 | Should n't take more than a fortnight . |
| 6 | ‘ Look here , Stevens , the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight . ’ |
| 7 | Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Less than a fortnight later , a steel truss rod arrived in the post , with compliments from those nice people at Eggolsheim . |
| 10 | Eric Cantona is in the squad less than a fortnight after suffering a hamstring injury that was expected to keep him out of action for two months . |
| 11 | PAUL WARHURST is set for a dramatic return to first-team football tomorrow — less than a fortnight after it almost killed him . |
| 12 | He actually picked up and held daughter Renee — less than a fortnight after leaving model wife Rachel Hunter to share the tiny burden with a nanny . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may be more than a fortnight — I do n't really know how long . " |
| 15 | With the election less than a fortnight away , I could hardly believe my luck . |
| 16 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 17 | Less than a fortnight ago , the IRA bombed army barracks in Kent . |
| 18 | No-one told him that BCR trains had already been working into Craven Arms for more than a fortnight . |
| 19 | During the last Energy Question Time , more than a fortnight ago , he promised to write to me but he has failed to do so . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | When it began to dawn that you were going to be out more than a fortnight or three weeks , did anything emerge that w that you can see was to keep you encouraged for that period ? |
| 22 | But er it 's less than a fortnight now . |
| 23 | Omagh boss Paul Kee had been chasing the tall Limerick central defender for more than a fortnight . |
| 24 | DEFENDING champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf could both be missing when Wimbledon starts in less than a fortnight . |
| 25 | In less than a fortnight it will be the third anniversary of his death . |
| 26 | We 've got five weeks discouraged from taking more than a fortnight at a time . |