Example sentences of "after a week [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 2 | ‘ A man can be dead tired after a week 's work but he can still give his wife a helping hand . |
| 3 | AFTER a week 's exposure to American television 's sports coverage it was a relief to watch television at home . |
| 4 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 5 | Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week 's heavy drinking . |
| 6 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 7 | On 7 June , after a week 's resistance by Major Sylvain Raynal and 600 men , with a heroism hardly equalled in the war , Fort Vaux finally fell . |
| 8 | It was voted upon as a whole on 16 October , and taken up again after a week 's break on 25–27 October . |
| 9 | On July 12 , 1989 , after a week 's delay , ESA 's Ariane-3 rocket launched Olympus 1 , Europe 's most advanced communications satellite , built by British Aerospace , from Kourou in French Guiana . |
| 10 | On Nov. 22 , after a week 's delay , association agreements between the European Communities ( EC ) and Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland were initialled in Brussels . |
| 11 | She took over after a week 's rehearsal , during which Cuka 's understudy , Gloria Connell , played opposite Crawford . |
| 12 | After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 13 | ‘ After a week 's work it was satisfying to win against Brighton but it was only a glimmer of hope . ’ |