Example sentences of "week [coord] so [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They may take a week or so to work , but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent .
2 A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘
3 It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV .
4 Jay giggled along with him , they cried on each other 's shoulders and , every week or so over cocktails , swore to marry each other .
5 Weight is very quickly lost in the first week or so of most diets , but slows down somewhat after that .
6 After a week or so of being outdoors Dawn gradually accepted the sights and sounds around her .
7 After the first week or so of following the diet , with any possible withdrawal symptoms behind you , things should look up .
8 After a week or so of this high fibre diet , your constipation should ease and your normal bowel habits return .
9 And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together .
10 When spring had come , the village filled for a week or so with men from the Tibetan villages further north .
11 He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February .
12 Case studies have been updated and will be sent to participants within the next week or so with other Conference papers .
13 a week or so before the interview ask the subordinate to complete an appraisal preparation form so as to provide a starting point for the discussion
14 Instead , control your impatience and wait for another week or so before testing the material again .
15 The first of these is the lack of interest shown by the general public for the game , which only appears a week or so before Wimbledon and disappears a week or so afterwards .
16 If you have applied to vote by post and your application is allowed you will receive a postal ballot paper a week or so before polling day .
17 I know that it is intended to begin wiring around 1 September 1993 and that it will be a week or so before the actual switchover from room 202 to the above sites takes place .
18 To reinforce this confidence , they had participated in GCC defence consultations a week or so before and joint manoeuvres with Kuwait the previous winter .
19 I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club .
20 This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers .
21 We had lunch a week or so after that .
22 Time a week or so after christmas has come you 're you 're glad to get them down and out the way .
23 and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad .
24 Within my first week or so in the House , I was sitting in the Smoking Room reading a book .
25 But a week or so in a holiday cottage is n't the same as becoming a permanent resident .
26 For the Opens he used to go to the course a week or so in advance and play on his own .
27 My first contact with the BBC came in the person of Lance Sieveking , a fastidious producer who came to Canada on loan to CBC , and spent a week or so in each of the regions .
28 For a week or so in February , a pair of longtailed tits was often to be seen in and beneath the shrubs near the nutbag .
29 It is better by far for the patient to have a week or so in which to mull over all that has occurred and everything he or she has learnt about the past .
30 Although the cake and fondant icing can be prepared a week or so in advance if required , the chocolate work on this cake is best left until nearer the day .
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