Example sentences of "there [prep] about [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 2 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 3 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
| 4 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 5 | Keith stayed with us there for about three weeks . |
| 6 | I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there . |
| 7 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |