Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] week ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirteen patients were studied before and after 2–12 weeks ' treatment with metronidazole 800 mg/day , while maintaining an unchanged NSAID intake . |
| 2 | People join the savings club and after 12 weeks ' contributing can get loans at 1 per cent interest . |
| 3 | When the client 's employers stop paying salary after thirteen weeks ' absence through ill-health . |
| 4 | After three weeks ' detention in military barracks Daniel Omara Atubu and the 17 others — including three other DP members who hold government posts — were accused of treason . |
| 5 | After three weeks ' use , our 10 testers all felt there was an improvement — eyes less puffy , or slightly less wrinkled . |
| 6 | After three weeks ' honeymoon in Mentone , they returned to London where Eliot succumbed to bronchitis . |
| 7 | Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list . |
| 8 | By contrast babies born after 40 weeks ' gestation had raised death rates from non-cardiovascular causes , reflected in higher rates from all causes combined . |
| 9 | Five patients had experienced symptoms suggestive of cow 's milk allergy ( urticaria ( one ) , loose stools ( one ) , vomiting ( two ) , diarrhoea ( one ) ) and were admitted for diagnostic milk challenge after four weeks ' milk elimination . |
| 10 | Median serum concentrations of IGF-I increased by 0.38 U/ml after four weeks ' treatment ( 0.54–0.92 U/ml ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 11 | Mean energy intake ( Table III ) was not significantly different in the two groups before treatment , increased in both groups after four weeks ' treatment , and was maintained in the steroid treated group but not in the group treated with the elemental diet after 13 weeks . |
| 12 | After two weeks ' work the catapult was finally ready . |
| 13 | Specifically , the study tested the hypothesis that the duodenal ulcer healing rates after two weeks ' treatment were lower in the presence of : |
| 14 | In a recently published pilot study , however , a H pylori eradication rate of 80% was achieved after two weeks ' treatment with omeprazole ( 40 mg ) and the new macrolide antibiotic clarithromycin ( 500 mg three times daily ) . |
| 15 | The EC wants all women to have the right to return to work after 14 weeks ' paid leave , but it looks as though British women will receive sick pay , rather than full pay . |
| 16 | After seven weeks ' work on the part of many army personnel , we were ready to begin . |
| 17 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 18 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |
| 19 | Apparently even if I was within the time limit of twenty-eight weeks ' pregnancy — which of course I 'm not — I could n't possibly stand an eight-hour flight ; I 've got a touch of toxaemia — ’ |
| 20 | From July , IBM will give departing employees a maximum of 26 weeks ' pay and as much as six months paid medical coverage . |
| 21 | Just as for a play , Nichols had the luxury of three weeks ' rehearsal on The Graduate before shooting began on location in Los Angeles , Berkeley and San Francisco . |
| 22 | The programme was the product of three weeks ' intensive work by President Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers to produce a compromise between Stanislav Shatalin " s radical proposals and the more cautious plan produced by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov . |
| 23 | Significant rises in audit fees were recorded at : Guinness ( +30% ) , where turnover rose 16% to £4,067m ; Williams Holdings ( +30% ) , where profits included a contribution of 42 weeks ' trading for major acquisition Yale & Valor ; Burmah Castrol ( +18% ) ; Rank Organisation ( +33% ) , where turnover jumped to £2,114m ( v £1,333m ) after inclusion of a full year from major acquisition Mecca Leisure ; and Rentokil ( +19% ) where pretax profits rose by 27% . |
| 24 | We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g . |
| 25 | Clause 20 and Sch 2 add to the existing protection of pregnant women by giving those without the requisite length of service , who formerly were not entitled to any maternity leave , a period of 14 weeks ' such leave . |
| 26 | The Commission also failed on June 26 , 1991 , to obtain agreement on its plan to introduce a statutory minimum of 14 weeks ' fully paid maternity leave for pregnant women . |
| 27 | EC Finance Ministers also agreed on Oct. 19 on measures providing for a minimum of 14 weeks ' maternity leave to be paid at a rate at least as high as statutory sick pay regardless of how long a pregnant woman had worked for her employer . |
| 28 | The 42-clause Bill gives pregnant workers the right to a minimum of 14 weeks ' maternity leave . |
| 29 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 30 | Other parts of the directive — including a minimum of four weeks ' paid leave — apply to everyone . |