Example sentences of "[prep] [art] fortnight [unc] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , after a fortnight 's holiday in California , his first for two years , he complained , ‘ My wife would n't let me take any work with me ’ . |
| 2 | After a fortnight 's visit with her mother to her aunt Mrs Poole at Ramsgate , Helen decided that she must earn some money and , if possible , live away from home where her mother 's grief-stricken restrictions and excessive dependency — so she thought — would curtail that freedom of action and expression in which her father had encouraged her . |
| 3 | Little Hermia , a changed pony after a fortnight 's attention from Perdita , danced and snatched at her bit in excitement . |
| 4 | Border regained the Aussie captaincy from opening batsman Mark Taylor after a fortnight 's lay-off with a hamstring injury . |
| 5 | The New Zealand Lamb Information Bureau is offering BBC Good Food readers and local BBC radio listeners , a marvellous first prize of a fortnight 's holiday for two people in New Zealand , worth £6,500 . |
| 6 | 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC . |
| 7 | Mr Hapless books for a fortnight 's holiday for himself , his wife and two children . |
| 8 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 9 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |
| 10 | If there 's any oil or gas , they 'll hit it in about a fortnight 's time at 4,000ft — 5,000ft : |
| 11 | So , whilst this definition obviously includes jetting off to an exotic resort with a fortnight 's stay in a hotel , the definition also catches the hotel which offers an inclusive theatre weekend — one price covering the stay in the hotel and tickets for a show . |
| 12 | The pannier bags normally stay on , but this climb came only one day into the trip and with a fortnight 's food on board I could n't even lift my bike . |
| 13 | SCOTLAND go to Twickenham in a fortnight 's time with the best chance of beating England at home for years . |
| 14 | A tasty two-week campaign on national telly will go out in a fortnight 's time in the kids ' peak viewing slot — just between the early evening news and the popular Home And Away soap . |
| 15 | The inconclusive end to a fortnight 's talks at the International Coffee Organisation further depressed the market . |
| 16 | This traveller 's account from 1783 considered that outside , " the company is generally low " , but with fares equal to a fortnight 's wages for even a skilled craftsman , that must be considered a relative judgement on status . |