Example sentences of "[prep] nearly a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nearly a week after the injury , whenever he was in Nikkie 's field of view , Yeroen would hobble pitifully , generating an air of pain and dejection . |
| 2 | Dr David Clark , Labour 's agriculture spokesman , said : ‘ It was entirely irresponsible of the ministry to allow farmers for nearly a week to feed contaminated material to animals . |
| 3 | Miss Clinton stayed for nearly a week at Dale End before leaving to tour Scotland . |
| 4 | We stayed on the train for nearly a week , first being drawn down the track to Myinge where dear Jack Cardew took us into his house while the railway was repaired . |
| 5 | After they had virtually controlled the city for nearly a week , the Shanghai students scaled down their actions . |
| 6 | After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed . |
| 7 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated . |
| 8 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 9 | For nearly a week the fist of the frost has held tight to the land . |
| 10 | Cassie stayed at her family home for nearly a week , but on the Monday , with her parents due to leave the following morning , she packed her bags and prepared to go . |
| 11 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 12 | Ever since he got ill — for nearly a week , I bet . |
| 13 | He 's been out for nearly a week . |
| 14 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 15 | NEW ZEALAND , whose tour of Sri Lanka was delayed by nearly a week and then rescheduled after a bomb blast near their hotel , yesterday lost their opening game by 17 runs in Matara . |