Example sentences of "almost [art] week " in BNC.

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1 On top of that , regulators are changing the rules of the game almost every week : in the latest move , on January 23rd , America decided to relax its rules on the foreign ownership of its airlines .
2 Proposed reforms to the French port system , which have led to one-day strikes by dockers almost every week , are to be continued , the prime minister said .
3 Although maintaining all the Services we should , it was possible to ‘ go up West ’ almost every week .
4 ROADS : Almost every week traffic restrictions are placed on a new section of the motorway network , reducing the number of lanes open to traffic from three , to two , or even one .
5 Fresh leaks about stifled criticism in the NHS now arise almost every week , but it is n't only in health that gagging is now becoming so oppressive .
6 Iceland Frozen Foods — opening a new store almost every week — rang up a 19 per cent RISE to £24,200,000
7 This group had met almost every week for nearly two years .
8 It is a popular place for watersports and seems to host colourful regattas on the water almost every week .
9 I never understood where all these squares of material came from because the demand was enormous ; to meet it the Madonna 's dress would have had to be changed almost every week .
10 They probably adopted as their standard of ‘ homophonic polyphony ’ with clearly intelligible text the Preces speciales of the Italianized Netherlander Jacobus de Kerle ( c. 1532–1591 ) and his Mass ‘ Regina coeli ’ ; the ‘ special prayers ’ for the Council 's success had been commissioned by a German cardinal , Truchsess von Waldburg , in 1562 and were sung at Trent three times almost every week .
11 His rapport with the Wagner household comes across vividly from letters to Rohde in the late summer of 1869 : " Just recently I 've paid four visits there in quick succession and a letter takes wing in the same direction almost every week " ; " On the visit before last , during the night , a baby boy called Siegfried was born .
12 The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week .
13 Almost every week , at secret hearings in the High Court , judges are asked to issue injunctions against the media .
14 The crossing took almost a week and those team members who were not seasick practised hitting shots on board , timing their swings with the roll of the ship .
15 Despite having dispensed with sundry items deemed essential to sustain European stomachs on their World Cup visit in 1987 — doctor , diet sheets , microwave oven and Tesco-sponsored tuck-boxes all left them flushed , as it were , with lack of success — England have been here almost a week , practising every day in sauna-bath temperatures for their opening match against Sri Lanka on Sunday .
16 It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest .
17 Looking back , he saw that , for almost a week , he had kept himself going with little schemes and plots .
18 When she called Nahum to know who it was he did n't answer , and it was almost a week before she recognized Elizabeth Bradford .
19 He continued to hide this condition for almost a week , until he collapsed during a break in rehearsals , and was rushed to hospital .
20 The difference between us and those other publications , however , was that NSS was still on the newsstands almost a week after everyone knew that the Tories were back with an overall majority .
21 This is significant because , in effect , it added an extra week to the pre-Christmas trading period — the last Saturday before Christmas was almost a week before Christmas itself .
22 It was almost a week later when Hari Morgan was shown into the small sitting-room of the house in Chapel Street .
23 Gradually they gained the upper hand and after almost a week of savage fighting the Germans began to fall back .
24 At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery .
25 He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold .
26 He had had barely a glimpse of what the Ping Tiao hierarchy were up to for almost a week now .
27 ‘ It 's been almost a week , now . ’
28 It was better this way ; somehow she would manage to see Dana before Roman did , and then she would leave and take up her life as it had been before she had met Roman almost a week ago .
29 Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ?
30 The letter was dated almost a week previously , and as Merrill read it she realised with dismay that Richard was already in the area and was suggesting that they meet in the lounge of Frobishers ' at seven o'clock on Saturday — this evening .
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