Example sentences of "[adj] week ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stein and his staff had also filled , in principle , the several hundred other posts , but most of these members of staff would not take up their positions until three weeks before the hotel 's grand opening , timed to tie in with a huge party which Stephen was throwing for island dignitaries and specially invited celebrities , Michael Stein had proved his worth yet again in sending off invitations to the party , offering a free week 's holiday to various A-list showbiz and society figures . |
| 2 | The aid formula of the House bill provided the unemployed with six , 13 or 20 additional weeks ' benefit depending on their state of residence . |
| 3 | Although the viewers would still see the planned number of episodes , production-wise it meant re-engaging the regular cast for an extra week 's recording : potentially expensive as contracts would need to be re-negotiated . |
| 4 | The success of Peter Medd. an Old Boy and son of one of the Visitors , in gaining a First Class Honours degree at Oxford so pleased the Goldsmiths that he was given a prize of £20 and the School an extra week 's holiday that summer . |
| 5 | The ending of the War was marked first of all by an extra week 's holiday , but plans were in hand for a more permanent reminder of the " war to end all wars " . |
| 6 | One extra week 's notice has to be given in respect of each full year of employment up to 12 years . |
| 7 | A typical week 's training for a 13-year-old likely to win a place in the County team totals less than nine miles . |
| 8 | Eager to be a good green , she spent her entire week 's allowance on a giant aerosol spray because it announced itself as ‘ environment-friendly ’ . |
| 9 | Its direct-drive 33hp electric motor gives it a good top speed of 74mph and a range of 90 miles : more than enough , says Renault , for the average commuter 's entire week 's travel . |
| 10 | They worked on the following week 's agenda until mid-morning , only breaking when Fred was called away . |
| 11 | The first was a confidential report on the progress of TOPP ( see p 14 ) , which appeared in the following week 's Accountancy Age . |
| 12 | ‘ I have never seen so active an audience ’ , wrote Tom McGrath in the following week 's Peace News . |
| 13 | The following week 's press was hard but fair : Reading Festival — A Joke ! |
| 14 | An illustrated booklet to accompany the series was prepared by a member of the Ipswich Tutorial Class and questions which arose during the post-broadcast class discussion were forwarded to Mrs. Adams who dealt with them during the following week 's transmission . |
| 15 | Jimmy Adams , too , who must have pushed match-award adjudicator Everton Weekes close to a three way split , sat head bowed in the dressing-room , contemplating the following week 's engagement at Eppleton in the Durham Senior League . |
| 16 | … One of the topics came up in the following week 's Science lesson … the girls took great delight in showing the boys how to perform the tasks ! … the improvement in their confidence was most marked . ’ |
| 17 | The upshot was that on the following week 's edition of " Top of the Pops " , Jimmy Savile explained the misunderstanding and apologised profusely and generously to our company . |
| 18 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 19 | ‘ If I 'm going to watch games , I would be of more use studying the following week 's opposition and helping prepare for them . |
| 20 | Many of the initial questions were of exactly the type the previous week 's session had been intended to prevent . |
| 21 | We had already amassed quite a pile of seizures following irregularities uncovered during the previous week 's work at Ullapool , and we returned with Reg Clarke on board to have another bite at the cherry . |
| 22 | If the result had gone differently , there would , no doubt , have been some sarcastic offerings concerning our previous week 's cover ( ‘ It 's 1997 , and the Tories are going for their fifth consecutive election victory … |
| 23 | I have no doubt that a major influence in forcing him to make what must have been for him a most distasteful and humiliating manoeuvre , was a letter sent by a number of Durham county councillors to a local newspaper in reply to an article penned by Mr Fallon in the previous week 's issue . |
| 24 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 25 | Ajax join English clubs in European exile , as UEFA bans the club for the next two years they qualify for Europe , as punishment for the previous week 's crowd trouble , when the Austria Vienna goalkeeper was felled by a metal spike . |
| 26 | It was inevitable that the previous week 's tragedy should colour the contributions to the writers ' workshop . |
| 27 | JAMES TARRY followed up his previous week 's treble with a double at the Blankney last Saturday on Fine Lace and St Laycar . |
| 28 | The plan , he affirmed , had been introduced at the previous week 's meeting between President Bush and President Gorbachev in Washington [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 29 | Like the previous week 's Bescot Open Day held on Sunday , August 30 , an excellent display of BR locomotives and preserved examples are also planned . |
| 30 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |