Example sentences of "[prep] a fortnight [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Châteauneuf , the castle controlling the key bridge across the River Charente west of Angoulême , on the main road from Poitiers to Bordeaux , fell after a fortnight 's siege . |
| 7 | Is it possible to return home with a tan after a fortnight 's holiday , after using only high protection sunscreens ? |
| 8 | Corbett , who had a string of classical roles behind him but was best known as the star of Steptoe and Son on TV , played a married travelling salesman , Brian , who is having an affair and aches for his lover after a fortnight 's absence , only to find himself sharing a bedsitting room with a religious zealot , Arnold , played by Crawford . |
| 9 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tactical talk in the trattoria After 4,000 years of turbulent rule , the prospect of a fortnight 's foraging by English fans is barely worth a shrug to the Sardinians , says Erlend Clouston of the World Cup qualifying match preparations . |
| 12 | He met Sally and told her he knew the author of A Fortnight 's Ramble and , indeed , revealed his identity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 15 | Sebastian 's ‘ holiday ’ had been meant to be of a fortnight 's duration only . |
| 16 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 17 | Cusworth , England 's former stand-off who still turns it on for the Tigers , leaves for a fortnight 's holiday next week . |
| 18 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 19 | As part of their preparations for the Olympic Games , the Olympic Racing Squad were due to fly to Florida last month for a fortnight 's training camp . |
| 20 | Mr Hapless books for a fortnight 's holiday for himself , his wife and two children . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Allow at least two large tubes of water-resistant cream for each child for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 23 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 24 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 25 | After spending two weeks in Edinburgh and London , discussing plans for the final publication of her surveys in the Golan undertaken while she held the Lady Carlisle Fellowship , she returned to Oxford and enjoyed the hospitality of Somerville S. C. R. for a fortnight 's intensive work in the libraries . |
| 26 | But if the children some under the care of the relief agencies , little ones , who were emaciated , hollow-eyed , and listless , become after about a fortnight 's feeding quite plump again and begin to laugh and sing . |
| 27 | If there 's any oil or gas , they 'll hit it in about a fortnight 's time at 4,000ft — 5,000ft : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | with a fortnight 's free board under our belt |
| 30 | 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 . |