Example sentences of "hardly a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly a week passes in which the Defence Campaign does not monitor incidents of harassment or malpractice by officers from Tottenham . |
| 2 | Hardly a week passes without a major conference — in the past seven days , one in London , another in Lisbon — where television companies , advertisers and sponsorship consultants , a new breed , come together to divine any slight shift in the regulatory tea leaves . |
| 3 | During the past six months , hardly a week has gone by without yet another whisper about a sale from Saatchi 's collection . |
| 4 | We got very good but there was hardly a week when some of us was n't killed . |
| 5 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 6 | Hardly a week goes by without a report in the press of some find of archaeological importance . |
| 7 | HARDLY a week has gone by in recent months without some new development in home video . |
| 8 | Hardly a week passed without Anna Essinger setting off for London on a fund raising mission , invariably returning with promises to sponsor more refugee children . |
| 9 | Hardly a week passed without Rabbi Schonfeld or his chief lieutenant and propagandist , Harry Goodman , mounting an attack against the RCM for dereliction of duty , implying that if they held the reins the race would be as good as won . |
| 10 | Hardly a week goes by without some similar large-scale slimming down affecting large numbers of middle managers . |
| 11 | It seemed hardly a week went by without a new ‘ breakthrough ’ in the technological aspects of the sport ; costs were inflating ; teams could n't be run without proper ( i.e. large ) budgets . |
| 12 | During the 1960s when three pop pirate ships were moored off Walton on the Naze hardly a week went by without the town 's lifeboat being called out to youngsters attempting to reach their idols in makeshift rafts , and rowing boats . |
| 13 | The country houses decay and fall : hardly a week passes when one does not see the auctioneer 's notice of the impending sale and dissolution of some big estate . |
| 14 | Hardly a week goes by now without us having a new champion … central south sport has never had it so good … this week we 've the European champion of champions to toast … the name is Sue Wright … the game is squash … and this is the Friday Feature |