Example sentences of "only a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made myself pretty busy : got pissed , went and screamed at Jamie , saw a million movies , realised with horror that that ate up only a week . |
| 2 | Only a week ago , he was in New York beating the world champion , Abdi Bile , and the best of the rest at this distance . |
| 3 | But the resistance has already scored an important propaganda victory against government forces , only a week after Vietnam said it had withdrawn all its troops from Cambodia . |
| 4 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 5 | These results do not require us to dispense with the idea of an internal body clock , if only because they appear very rarely in experiments lasting only a week or so . |
| 6 | ‘ Only a week , and you must have a good week . |
| 7 | The measure , the National Health Service and Community Care Bill , contains the legislation needed for both the NHS shake-up and enactment of the community care white paper , published only a week ago . |
| 8 | Only a week had passed . |
| 9 | His courtesy , however , contained a reticence that did not permit him to ask outright just how she had come by her knowledge of Møn when she spent only a week a year on the island . |
| 10 | Elisabeth , whose knowledge and love of Møn were demonstrable , could afford only a week 's visit annually . |
| 11 | ‘ At that time it was SOS Pompey and the club were said to have only a week to survive . |
| 12 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 13 | It was agreed that the SAS would carry out a series of raids on these airfields in early July , leaving only a week to prepare for departure . |
| 14 | But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration . |
| 15 | Only a week ago , a drunk in the village had been arrested for singing that song . |
| 16 | This was only a week after the start of what was almost a revolutionary service — the cost : 1d for my eldest sister who was fourteen and half price or ½d for my other sister and myself . |
| 17 | In the weeks before Christmas , the agent was starting to sack staff , some of whom had joined only a week before the order was issued . |
| 18 | Both were recorded within only a week of each other ! |
| 19 | The plasterer dressed in his working clothes of fustian splashed with white lime , seen in the Little Dorrit illustration saying goodbye to the Father of the Marshalsea , managed to settle with his creditors after only a week . |
| 20 | It was only a week since , in this very room , she had wished to be rid of Gareth Davis ; now he was dead . |
| 21 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 22 | 1977 A&M Records drop The Sex Pistols only a week after signing them , due to bad press . |
| 23 | This was now only a week away . |
| 24 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 25 | Only a week after becoming chairman of BP in 1990 , Robert Horton announced sweeping organisation changes that led to over 1,000 job losses . |
| 26 | Only a week after the strike , a clean-up of the more open violence had begun in the worst harassed loyalist districts . |
| 27 | After only a week of filming his third American film , Kidnapped , in 1937 , he was fired by Darryl F Zanuck after an argument , and Zanuck saw to it that Preminger was virtually blacklisted . |
| 28 | FIRMS have only a week left to apply for an enterprise initiative which pays half their consultancy fees . |
| 29 | He remained an active figure in the House until only a week ago . |
| 30 | Although you may drop a dress size or see the scales tipping in your favour after only a week or two , all too often the results are short-lived . |