Example sentences of "for the past week " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past weeks Edouard had had to force himself to look at newspapers : all he saw there when he opened them was confirmation and repetition : accident , sickness , violence and sudden death , handed out evenly to the guilty and the innocent . |
| 2 | A Soviet Deputy Defence Minister , General Varrenikov , has been in Addis Ababa for the past week . |
| 3 | Xhosa-speakers generally support the African National Congress , which has been waging a small-scale war with followers of the Zulu-orientated Inkatha Freedom Party for the past week in Johannesburg 's townships . |
| 4 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 5 | D'Arcy 's aircraft had nosed cautiously down through the dense , sluggish cloudcover which had kept the lid firmly on the sultry atmosphere of the city for the past week . |
| 6 | For the past week I had been learning lines in preparation for an appearance in a new play due to start rehearsing later that month , and I loathed interruptions . |
| 7 | For the past week , with your donations , CARE have been able to mount six airlifts a day to Baidoa and Bardera — two of the towns featured in the Mirror 's shock report . |
| 8 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 9 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 10 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 11 | For the past week or so Dora has been getting steadily more frustrated at the way things are going between Rose and Dieter . |
| 12 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 14 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |
| 15 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 16 | From today newspapers are being supplied with figures for the past week 's level of ultra violet radiation . |
| 17 | For the past week the Mayor has suffered with the men as they respond to early morning calls . |
| 18 | The commander of UN troops in Bosnia , General Philippe Morillon , has been holed up in the town for the past week vowing not to leave until the safety of the inhabitants is assured . |
| 19 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |
| 20 | before I go to bed , you know , for the past week we 've had like an hour 's discussion , totally nothing ! |