Example sentences of "to spend a week " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They should all be forced to spend a week here — it would do them a world of good . ’
2 The prospect of a week 's walking in Borrowdale at the end of July would raise the spirits of any walker , but to spend a week there as Outdoors Action prizewinners was an added bonus .
3 Q : We are planning to spend a week in New York in May , but good hotels seem rather expensive .
4 In May 1964 I travelled by coach with a couple of willing colleagues and a score or more of sixth-formers to spend a week reading , arguing , and welcoming visitors to a refreshing house on the Gower Peninsular in Wales .
5 Early in their friendship , when Alice had to spend a week in London and Alex was away , she had given Meg one of her spare keys to the cottage so that she could go in to collect and forward her post .
6 It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim .
7 They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business .
8 US jungle troops used to spend a week eating local food before starting active combat , to ensure their body odour — partly derived from Western foods — did not give away their location to the enemy .
9 Enterprise launched a special ‘ price buster ’ deal , allowing two adults and two children to spend a week in any of its resorts — in unspecified accommodation — for under Pounds 350 .
10 Mark Jefferson , Harriet 's cousin , came down to Cornwall ostensibly to spend a week with them over Christmas , but left the day after Boxing Day .
11 The 63-year-old Oscar winning actress is expected to spend a week in hospital after Sunday 's operation on the tumour , which may be cancerous .
12 13–10–1888 An Assembly Deputation from the Committee on Religion and Morals was to spend a week in Bowmore .
13 She and John went first to see her mother , then to a hotel in Chester overnight , and then to spend a week in North Wales .
14 There were a number of contacts to make , both in New York and on the West Coast ; Cadogan 's was thinking of expanding to San Francisco to take advantage of the considerable artistic activity out there , and he had been asked to spend a week in reconnoitring and reviewing possible sites .
15 I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy .
16 These include ‘ work simulation ’ for all pupils in S3 , the option to spend a week following a course of their choice and the option to attend college on a regular basis throughout one school term .
17 ‘ I am sure you would be delighted to spend a week among the Menuras ’ Gould wrote immediately .
18 ‘ I would n't have thought the Prince was one to wish to spend a week admiring the beauties of the river bank . ’
19 Well , I do n't think girls who let themselves get picked up en masse off the bank to spend a week with a bloke on a dahabeeyah arc likely to be that high class .
20 The season opens with an episode of the newsroom comedy Drop The Dead Donkey in which reporter Damien goes under cover to spend a week as a down-and-out. — PA
21 On October 29 we 're off to spend a week with Jacques and Odile at their apartment in Gay Paree .
22 I 'm not going to spend a week on the route
23 I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ?
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