Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [det] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 2 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 3 | What if Lubor said he had heard , but that Ven was n't returning for another week ? |
| 4 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 5 | On Oct. 18 the House approved , by 379 votes to 37 , another stop-gap funding measure to enable the government to keep operating for another week . |
| 6 | On top of that the new point to point season is off and running and that 's where we 're going for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 7 | Pressure on emergency services , rather than cash problems , has led to Whipps Cross Hospital in Waltham Forest closing for this week to all but the most urgent waiting-list cases . |
| 8 | ‘ So I 'm asking for another week , Hilary . |
| 9 | Wasting of the large muscles starts after 24 hours , so having to lay off running for several weeks could have a considerably detrimental effect on muscle power . |
| 10 | In Stage II you can use the foods that you are introducing for that week . |
| 11 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 12 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 13 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |