Example sentences of "[to-vb] for week " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germans now have to wait for weeks or even months for replies to their applications for visas to Hungary , through which more than 31,000 have escaped since August . |
| 2 | Sometimes informants and subsources in Lebanon had to go for weeks without pay because of budget cuts and red tape , El-Jorr complained , citing names , chapter and verse . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to rattle for weeks ! ’ |
| 4 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 5 | The greatest unfairness , she thought , was that the women who could afford to buy the beautiful clothes simply did not do them justice , while she , who showed them off so well , had to save for weeks , even given her staff discount , for the most modestly priced item . |
| 6 | Why commission a craftsman to labour for weeks on a design of guitar that was specifically intended for mass production ? |
| 7 | ‘ No , of course not , Julia , ’ said Anthony , smiling at her with more sympathy than he had managed to show for weeks . |