Example sentences of "about a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left to its own devices , real ale stays in a drinkable condition for about a week . |
| 2 | For about a week new blisters will appear . |
| 3 | She had been there about a week when I learnt of her arrival through a friend and went to visit her . |
| 4 | They got the impression that he was well into it but , in fact , it was only about a week before that he 'd started to get interested . |
| 5 | Young woman , aged twenty-nine , dead about a week the local bloke reckons . ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile , at the Boston University School of Medicine , Gladys Friedler has been studying the offspring from the pairing of healthy female mice with male mice that have been briefly exposed to chemicals about a week before mating . |
| 7 | About a week after he had taken the stable , a Land Rover swept round the drive at high speed and disgorged its chamber of horrors — his family . |
| 8 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 9 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 10 | It can be installed by Wine care in about a week , or you can buy the kit and dig your own hole . |
| 11 | After about a week , I noticed the vehicle had settled about 15mm more on the off-side — noticeable on a level surface . |
| 12 | In its usual form , dengue lasts about a week . |
| 13 | It is likely that T. vaginalis is not at its happiest in the male urethra , and providing exposure to the protozoon does not again occur during this period , in about a week most men will probably eliminate the organism from the urethra without the aid of treatment . |
| 14 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |
| 15 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |
| 16 | There are no parturition problems : the calves are small at birth ( 30–35kg ) and have nicely tapered heads , and the prepotent bulls are ideal for crossing on first-calf heifers ; they also give a shorter gestation period by about a week and colour-mark their progeny . |
| 17 | I had borrowed it about a week before . |
| 18 | About a week later the eggs hatch leaving behind paler coloured shells which remain glued . |
| 19 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 20 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 21 | This can have some side-effects , such as nausea and vomiting , but only has to be taken for about a week . |
| 22 | Wait until the baby has been well for about a week , and then reintroduce each food in turn , beginning with those least likely to cause trouble , and testing cow 's milk last . |
| 23 | Once farrowed , sows stay with their litter for several days , then begin to leave the nest after about a week as the piglets grow larger and more troublesome . |
| 24 | About a week after this sanctions bombshell , the ‘ Friends of Spain' organisation announced that a Public Meeting was being held in the city 's St. Andrew 's Hall , at this time the largest venue in Glasgow . |
| 25 | However , all the attention can over-stimulate the skin and more spots of blemishes may erupt for a few days afterwards , so always book a back treatment about a week before a special night out . |
| 26 | One afternoon , about a week after Edouard 's departure , he noticed the boy was quieter than usual , and slightly flushed . |
| 27 | Eventually , after about a week , her little head would pop up over the hill and watch me put out her food as I whistled , but she would n't come down for it until she felt the coast was clear . |
| 28 | After about a week they can be given brine shrimp nauplii and microworm , and will also peck at the food offered to the adults . |
| 29 | I later discovered this is the colouring of juvenile specimens and the darker colouring should appear after the fish has reached 20cm — mine duly obliged after about a week . |
| 30 | After about a week to ten days the fry will be able to take newly-hatched brine shrimp and from here on the growth rate is very rapid . |