Example sentences of "week [coord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment of entering the Workhouse the expectation of life for most was a matter of weeks or even days . |
| 2 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 3 | Is it not possible for the media to get some kind of award organised , say if a newspaper or TV station succeeds in not showing Mr Bell for several years , weeks or even days ? |
| 4 | The most common complication is a prolonged and often uncomfortable pain which can last for weeks or even months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In reality , deterrent operations might last for weeks or even months , but the AMF(L) must exercise as a fighting force if it is to prove its worth . |
| 7 | This overwhelming sense of rejection is based on dreading this prospect all their lives , and difficult to change and undermine in weeks or even months . |
| 8 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 9 | In a new pond , which is effectively what you have , the filter must be allowed to mature the water , which can take weeks or even months . |
| 10 | Only in the final stages of breakdown does the nutrient become available for uptake by living plants , and this can take weeks or even months . |
| 11 | Many have survived days , weeks or even months lacking regular food or safe accommodation , often by begging or shoplifting and sleeping in squats , derelict buildings , on the streets or under bridges in cardboard boxes . |
| 12 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 13 | It is unreasonable to expect a piece of software to turn you and your computer into their equal in a matter of weeks or even months . |
| 14 | After some weeks or even months , the skin splits . |
| 15 | While it is of course very difficult to fix an offer price several weeks or even months in advance who knows how share prices in general will change in the meantime ? — the table does seem to confirm our earlier claim that , on average , the offer price was set below the free market price . |
| 16 | But it would prevent the press from publishing calumnies which can not be answered , as in the Beck case , sometimes until weeks or even months after the allegation is made in the public arena of a court . |
| 17 | The organism induces decreased acid secretion , at least in the early phase of the disease but this may persist for weeks or even months . |
| 18 | The effect may not be immediate , some indiscretions take weeks or even months to become apparent , but will usually be in the form of a system crash . |
| 19 | But now they have to wait weeks or even months to claim back the money — forced to produce an exam certificate for each trainee before the TEC pays up . |
| 20 | IF you are depressed or anxious , having relationship difficulties or worried about work , finding a qualified counsellor to talk things over with is n't always easy — especially if you ca n't afford fees of between £15 and £30 an hour , or do n't feel able to wait the weeks or even months it can take to get an appointment . |
| 21 | The effects lasted weeks or sometimes months after treatments had finished . |
| 22 | With the Berlin Philharmonic Karajan was able to extend the scope of his musical preparation not just across days but across weeks and even years . |
| 23 | The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency . |
| 24 | The class has been without a regular teacher for eight weeks and now parents are demanding extra help . |
| 25 | No , she 's said , she , she ai n't got the courage to ask her for more money , so I said well just give it a few more weeks and then Anne and Brian 's turn up , if it do n't get any better then , I 'm afraid you got Anne and Brian 's . |
| 26 | They acquired a significance that grew ever more painful as weeks and then months away from home turned into years . |
| 27 | All schemes involved weeks and sometimes months of furtive planning , decisions on route and disguise , invention of a suitable story for travelling purposes and sometimes even the learning of a new language . |
| 28 | While this is a considerable improvement on the former method , it does nothing to reduce the paper-work involved or to shorten the time before a buyer is entered on the company 's register and receives his share certificate — which will take weeks and sometimes months . |
| 29 | High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months . |
| 30 | If the widening of the 20 per cent lower income tax band to £3,000 in 1993/94 is taken into account ( which will be worth a further £25 a year to all basic and higher rate taxpayers ) , then the net effect of this and the change in the MCA on a married man aged under 65 who pays tax at the basic rate of 25 per cent will be an increase in tax of £1.17 a week or about £61 a year . |