Example sentences of "week ['s] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This weeks 's crackdown , codenamed Screwdriver .
2 Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay .
3 For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases .
4 ‘ I do n't mind , ’ he mumbled unconvincingly , ‘ I 've only got two weeks ' vacation .
5 He was the first man to organize an eight hour day , and two weeks ' vacation with pay .
6 During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war .
7 This tour of duty also included my first spell in command when Phil took his three weeks ' leave .
8 AN ATTEMPT by management at Devonport to poach the refitting of a destroyer from Rosyth Royal Dockyard has failed , but the unsolicited bid has caused two weeks ' delay to work on HMS Gloucester .
9 ‘ In two months ’ time , but it 's two weeks ' journey and
10 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 .
11 If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks .
12 As we have seen in Chapter I , most employment law rights are available only to people having a minimum of four weeks ' service , whilst protection against unfair dismissal for other than trade union activities , even with the law at its most liberal , required six months ' service .
13 Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late .
14 Mrs Brown — 6 weeks ' assessment
15 Nevertheless for many industrial workers the station was their gateway to one week 's or two weeks ' escape from mill and factory , and they rejoiced at its sight .
16 The officials finally admitted they were wrong — and paid Pete his two weeks ' benefit of £84 .
17 The aid formula of the House bill provided the unemployed with six , 13 or 20 additional weeks ' benefit depending on their state of residence .
18 We have innumerable paths that need constant work but due to financial pressures the lucky ones might only receive around six weeks ' work a year .
19 After two weeks ' work the catapult was finally ready .
20 She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding .
21 Matty attempts to clear her desk by doing two weeks ' work in three days .
22 The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work .
23 After seven weeks ' work on the part of many army personnel , we were ready to begin .
24 I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial .
25 The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off .
26 So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure .
27 The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could .
28 He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work .
29 As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence .
30 Both the French and Scottish groups undertook two weeks ' work experience and a week of language and social activity abroad .
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