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Sentence Examples For the past fortnight, Sue has kept a diary of all the food and drink she consumes. The first fortnight will see closure of Slade Lane Junction to replace signalling equipment and trackwork, including switches and crossings. Breeding of the deer is so successful that every fortnight at least 15 to 20 of them are translocated to the Srisailam and other forests. The little minx only writes him once every fortnight, wasting postage and the money on the paper, but of course he is supporting her. Malaysia's hot pursuit a fortnight ago appeared like a mirage in Bahrain's desert expanse. However, Mr Tilmouth has been unavailable to answer questions for the last fortnight. He's just back from a fortnight in the city and is suffering from little more than clogged up sinuses. After a fortnight of opening statements, it's finally show time for the majority owner of the Seven Network, Kerry Stokes. My true love returned a fortnight later, clearly shocked to see such a pale, weak and sickly frame propped up against a mountain of pillows. Only a fortnight ago, they were in a farmhouse on the city outskirts away from the gaze of the public. If the washing machine goes on the blink it has to be winched on to the ferry and it's gone for a fortnight. For the past fortnight, some builders have been doing up the flat next door. To curb overheating, regulators have produced a blizzard of edicts in the last fortnight, and made a few high profile arrests. He was convinced that this sedative would leave the horse's system in a week, or at most a fortnight. The past couple of weeks have seen the final fortnight of Parliament sittings for the year. A fortnight ago it was his uncharacteristic blunder which helped Celtic take the initiative in the first Old Firm game of the season. A sport that seems certain to capture the public imagination over the next Winter Olympic fortnight is the bob skeleton. And thanks for the namecheck and everything on that fortnight dating theory, but I never said that. It's easy to feel sluggish at the beginning of the year, especially after a fortnight of festive celebration and scoff. On eight of those occasions, the giant-killers slumped to at least one loss in the following fortnight. Show More Sentences Despite having been back for a fortnight, I have only just unpacked my suitcases. A fortnight on from his now infamous defiance of the smoking ban, our own John Deasy remains as unrepentant as he has been from day one. For those without compost heaps, their bins will be thoroughly unsanitary after a fortnight. The figures for untrained teachers were compiled by the trade union in the first fortnight in September. For a fortnight after the attacks, it left her too scared to leave her home for fear of unwarranted retribution. The unit, which arrived home on Saturday, will unwind this weekend before facing a fortnight on duty. For the first fortnight the Turks assaulted the land defences, breaching the outer walls, but could still not get inside. The group meets every fortnight though they're set to break for the summer. Also, of course, there is the reality that 20 or 30 years of habit are not broken in a fortnight. The couple went on a break to Paris in September 2002, but split up within a fortnight of their return, jurors heard. In an interview, Zhao said it took him a fortnight to produce the four portraits. He bruised his ankle and knee, but should make the home Parker Pen Shield tie with Madrid in a fortnight. As reported by the Press, Brough got the nod from rugby league writers following his starring role in the 58-16 win at Dewsbury a fortnight ago. The Quakers of Pembrokeshire will be arranging a fortnight of activities in honour of the Pembrokeshire verse-maker. But arguably his finest fortnight came in the build-up to last year's French Open. For ten years the lighthouse was happily staffed by a three man crew, rotated every fortnight. The main initiative, about once a fortnight, is taking kids who want to come out bush for one or two days. Her fortnight in the city passed quickly, a whirl of business and unavoidable social engagements. We could do with ten people to volunteer a couple of hours of their time over the next fortnight. More than 300 Wiltshire Army cadets spent an action-packed fortnight honing their skills in the heart of a Sussex forest. Show More Sentences The allegations hung over the couple, who were not called to give evidence in court, for more than a fortnight. A man was convicted today of murdering his partner less than a fortnight after she changed her status to single on Facebook. Only when they play with the hindrance of a handicap, as they did when Hearts were two up in Glasgow a fortnight back, is there any fun in it. Like Cameron, he is expected to launch his leadership campaign officially within the next fortnight. The amazing one-man band will be performing a number of gigs around the region over the next fortnight. This was discovered only a fortnight ago by Milngavie Primary School near Glasgow. Within a fortnight of the President's exhortation to agricultural scientists, farmers dumped cartloads of tomato on the streets. Many pitched tents more than a fortnight ago to make sure they were at the head of the queue when the homes come on sale tomorrow morning. I'm finally free of the round of writing and commissioning I've been caught in for the last fortnight. A dispensing optician, she was accompanied by six optometrists for a fortnight, in Pune, in India. Events of the past fortnight suggest escaping our hellish past might prove harder than the optimists imagined. He acted with urgency to meet the crying needs of his flock, providing chapels of ease where mass was said once a fortnight. After just a fortnight at home, I'd already sold the clothes on my back for a few precious bowls of luck charms. I met a chap in the hospital who had four years under his belt, and remember another who had his first chemo with me and died a fortnight later. I packed a yoga mat, envisaging sun salutations on the beach at dawn, but of course it stayed curled up like a Lycra cat for a fortnight. The inquiry had lasted a fortnight before summing-up day, and like all such procedures, it must have been like watching paint dry at times. Steve McCormack will stay on as coach and work with a football supremo who could be appointed within the next fortnight. The disbelief compounded a bizarre, almost surreal fortnight for the south coast club. Rohcon surveyed the building a fortnight ago and rejected all claims of leaks and structural defects. She died three days after giving birth and her baby survived only a fortnight longer. Show More Sentences Men lived and worked with volatile herbicides for ten days straight each fortnight, some over several years, in the sweltering monsoonal climate. All the waste fell into an ashpit which was filled with ashes from the housefires and the whole thing emptied and swilled down once a fortnight. He has done nothing else but pant, shake and tremble for the past fortnight at least. But what about additional paid paternity leave for, say, a fortnight when a baby is born? And I rely on him to take potato peelings to the compost bin once a fortnight. The Scots were able to ignore these failings in brushing aside the feeblest of Welsh challenges a fortnight ago. Rules and regulations take a backseat during this fortnight of imbecile fanaticism. For a fortnight, toddlers at St Andrew's had been busy committing rhymes to memory in preparation for their big performance. Over a fortnight they used an infrared camera to check the switchgear equipment, which helps power the 1,132 ft long ship. We spent over a fortnight in the studio, going through vocals and instrumentals. Gradually the news filtered through that the latest incidents were nowhere near as bad as the bombings a fortnight ago. It was a dramatic finale and set the tone for another truly memorable fortnight of sporting action. With Frank in the chair, the deans met every fortnight ensuring that finite resources were used effectively. He was not constitutionally a strong man, but he was able to faithfully fulfill the duties of his pastorate until a fortnight ago. Do you think I've just been playing with your emotions this last fortnight? More than a few Scots will fling themselves into the frozen fray as Winter Olympians for Team GB this fortnight in Salt Lake City. No corn-cob pipe is fit for anything until it has been used at least a fortnight. You have now finished making your pomander, and should now leave it on a windowsill in an erratically heated room for at least a fortnight. Today I have been painting the wooden fence post caps we bought about a fortnight ago. The past fortnight has continued the pattern, with his build-up to the forthcoming season about as smooth as an alpine pass. Show More Sentences At last Eric returned to Britain for a month's leave, but this was curtailed after a fortnight. Nobody would think of organising a social event or fundraiser in the holiday fortnight. It is the one fortnight of the year you can guarantee that I will be out on the water. I'm getting one or two calls a fortnight compared with one or two a term two years ago. He began to recover a fortnight ago and, after a sparkling piece of work last Tuesday, he was back on target. After a fortnight here in the summer it's all but impossible, much as I love my flat. Over the past fortnight, the town has suffered from a wave of vandalism and rowdy behaviour. They aren't visible at any time other than the wettest fortnight of the summer. In the past fortnight six new sea lion pups have been born and two wolf cubs made their first public appearances. Tomorrow will be my first proper day off for a fortnight and I feel utterly worn out. He suffered the injury at Halifax a fortnight ago, cried off ten minutes before kick-off last Saturday and isn't fit yet. Our grey bin was only half full at the end of one week which theoretically means we will now only fill it once a fortnight. A fortnight ago, the marchers carried loyalist flags, but claimed that, since the flags were furled, that was all right. The plan may also establish a target of repairing potholes in roads of this type within a fortnight of the council becoming aware of the problem. With just a fortnight to go before it will be implemented, the Scottish Executive is desperately trying to dampen down public expectations. The seven-year-old dead-heated for first place with Seattle Alley in a similar race over this course and distance a fortnight ago. Every fortnight they get together to socialise and work on different projects. Villagers look like they will be losing their main bus service in just over a fortnight, despite a deluge of complaints to the bus company. Ironically, his own troubles have coincided with New Labour's public relations fiascos of the past fortnight. Across the countryside the increased greenness of both crops and grass has been noticeable during the last fortnight. Show More Sentences David Mackenzie said the courts were groaning under the strain of dealing with hundreds of minor offences over the past fortnight. After a fortnight of storytelling in the country, the brigade of friends returns to Florence disburdened of their melancholy. Providing the Games continue free of security problems, the next fortnight promises to be enthralling. However, this also means that Fiona has been exposed to the virus, and may well erupt in spots a fortnight from now. My own attempts at avoiding ethnocentricity have been rather shaken up over the last fortnight, and I'd like to talk about it. There is also the story of the birth of the modern marathon, which will doubtless be trotted out in the next fortnight. Three former ministers dropped from the Cabinet a fortnight ago were appointed ministers of State. The farmers' market takes place every fortnight and Mrs Lupton said they have put up yellow A3 posters for the last year. The fortnight was officially launched on Tuesday, with visitors to the city's Market Square being waited on and served fine food and drink. But in the last fortnight, all of a sudden with absolutely no publicity whatsoever, the station's opening hours have been returned to normal. Once a fortnight add some soluble fertiliser or juice from your worm farm into the watering can to keep your plants at their peak. When the fortnight was up, he cashed the child allowance books to balance his accounts, and the credit system would begin all over again. Most of them had not been out for a fortnight, and everyone drank too much and jittered with agitation. Thieves have raided a motorway petrol garage three times in a fortnight one of them wearing a jacket he had stolen on an earlier visit. Once they were out at sea, Grapple was keelhauled every night for a fortnight. This afternoon, the team plays for the first time since sharing six goals with Rangers a fortnight ago. The Hungarians equalised late in the game, and went through 4-2 on aggregate after a 3-1 home win a fortnight later. The counties met in a challenge a fortnight ago, and it resulted in a convincing win for the Ulster side. The car is expected to arrive in Australia by airfreight in the next fortnight. Within the past fortnight he and his staff have helped deliver three lambs, and six African Pygmy goat kids. Show More Sentences Looked at the timetable for work over the next fortnight, I'm down some hours but it's not too bad. A fortnight ago she was in Barcelona for the weekend, on a British Council project, doing workshops and playing a show. The alternate week refuse collection, which sees household rubbish picked up once a fortnight, was designed with recycling aims in mind. He was stretchered off and driven to hospital, where he remained for a fortnight and had the first major operation on his knee. The single went on release last Friday, July 26 and is expected to shoot into the Irish top 40 within the next fortnight. A fortnight ago, 800,000 square kilometres of land were under water across the region. The Ambrosian scheme, deriving its origin from St. Ambrose, only provides for the recitation of the Psalter once a fortnight. The revels lasted a full fortnight, complete with boxing, copious amounts of food and alcohol, prostitution and fighting. It's a frenetic fortnight when people let their hair down and enjoy themselves to the full. His inability to apply himself to a given task, however, resurfaces in less than a fortnight. For the next fortnight the Japanese mounted attacks on the string of defended localities running along the road. A fortnight ago the lollipop lady was taken off the crossing following two near misses, leaving children to fend for themselves. A man will come in a van once a fortnight from Glasgow to look the place over. A fortnight ago, this very newspaper ran the story about Livingston's financial plight. If we wanted a life of leisure all we had to do was to show up at the dole office every fortnight. The ballot is to take place in the next fortnight over the sacking of a non-driving employee after he tested positive for alcohol at work. A year ago the Lambourn trainer saddled Haafhd to win this Group 3 race before that colt went on to 2,000 Guineas glory a fortnight later. She's leaving us in a fortnight so we ended up having a polite chat in the porch as I made lurching movements towards the car. After a fortnight of failure, a villager reported that the lurcher repeatedly visited one isolated house. Well, when I used to drive to York every fortnight I got into the habit of listening to audiobooks, which I really enjoyed. Show More Sentences The full one-way journey would take 43 hours of sailing and the best part of a leisurely fortnight. Wimbledon fortnight is here, and so are mixed doubles on the grass of York. Cans of soft drink and doughnuts will be manna from heaven for tennis fans queuing for tickets for Wimbledon tennis fortnight next week. Once when I was in college I decided to do a fortnight computer games marathon. In a fortnight, the Thomson family will host a grand banquet and evening ball. The three-year-old ran a creditable race to finish third on this course a fortnight ago. This year we get barely a fortnight after Easter before we're all being turfed out of work again for the May Day holiday. Perhaps that is a good thing in view of what awaits them in the next fortnight. At the end of a fortnight two little titlarks came out of their shells, and the next day two more. His hair was very messy and dirty, since he only got to bathe about once a fortnight and he never got to brush it. The events of the last fortnight have led many people to conclude that this is the beginning of the end for this government. It has taken a little over a fortnight for a large group of adults to regress to that institutional hugger-mugger one first encountered at boarding school at the age of eight. As in Silverstone a fortnight go, the BMW drivers had to line up with a weight handicap of 20 kilograms compared to their front-wheel-drive rivals. A former useful hurdler before being forced on to the sidelines with injury, The Butterwick Kid got off the mark over fences at Wetherby a fortnight ago. Since hitting the jackpot nearly a fortnight ago Michael Turner, 44, and his partner Lesley Learad, 40, have resigned from their jobs at a manufacturing plant and a pharmacy. I should hope to receive your rejoinder, post marked with the utmost haste, delivered upon my doorstep and stamped with your signet within the fortnight. A fortnight by the sea will be just the thing to lift my spirits. A fortnight ago, he had 35 goals before a groin injury sidelined him. The past fortnight has had the subtle appeal of the Blitz spirit. The annual regatta fortnight is held over the final week of July and first week of August, a time when the place is jumping with visitors and locals alike. Show More Sentences The next fortnight will be crucial because prolonged rains are needed immediately to water crops and ensure that a harvest is produced in October. Residential roads and pavements will be cleaned every fortnight by the mobile cleansing teams, which will use EU standard low emission level vehicles. His death comes less than a fortnight after another employee of the company escaped with minor injuries after also being shot at while driving his car in the city. The reborn rider was as cool as a cucumber aboard the 9-4 favourite, who followed up his win a fortnight ago in Cheltenham's Gold Cup in impressive style. A shocked woman, who recognised him from the media coverage of his case, described how she saw him at a garage in Queensway about a fortnight ago. A fortnight ago, I had to unexpectedly pop home from the office. For the next fortnight Aquarian Venus busily stretches your social horizons, whirling and swirling you through various, multifarious, interesting new possibilities. Category A prisoners or lifers at Horfield Prison in Bristol are only allowed one two-hour visit each fortnight and so far she has been the only person to see him in jail. The yachtswoman scored her greatest feat yesterday when she won a dramatic solo transatlantic race in a record-breaking time after a tense fortnight at sea. But in a gross violation of their trust, Williams spent the fortnight casing the house, working out where keys were kept to the safe and what possessions they had. In 1986, when the Commonwealth Games were last hosted in Britain, Edinburgh endured a fortnight of stormy skies and an even bleaker financial legacy. Then for the next fortnight it would be a running joke in the restaurant. A fortnight ago, a short comminatory note, was drawn up in three versions. Well, these bags have been courting attention this past fortnight or so. There were no other visitors save for a man who came for a fortnight with his wife and seven children. Fireplace ashes are a hazard for at least a day and can remain so for as long as a fortnight, Duran says. Police have defended a decision to launch a crackdown on litterbugs in Bradford after it was revealed they handed out just six on-the-spot fines in a fortnight. A hospital scan has revealed a muscular problem rather than any stress fracture but the injury is still expected to sideline Hoggard for at least a fortnight. We made a clinical diagnosis of cutaneous orf, and the lesion healed without any complications within a fortnight, without further intervention or medication. Farrelly will be out for another fortnight with a hamstring injury but, on the credit side, Ricardo Gardner returned to action as a sub on Saturday. Show More Sentences So, here's to a fortnight of successful operating and hats off to a group of very dedicated people who are volunteering their time and skills to help the needy of East Africa. The procedure is carried out in babies in their first six months when the ear is extremely soft and easy to mould and can be successful within just a fortnight. The only sour note during a fortnight of success came when the tabloids had a field day over Sam's withdrawal from the Dunhill Links Championship. I get annoyed by the people who become instant experts for a fortnight but couldn't tell you who won the French Open, played just the other week at Flushing Meadow. The CA president netted the sum less than a fortnight after the US software company issued a profit warning which sent its share price plummeting. Following a rigorous round of auditions and interviews Tony was chosen ahead of hundreds of others a fortnight ago to take up the one year course. The end is near for a group of four Basingstoke post offices facing the axe, with two set to close this week and another following within a fortnight. The ration of half an hour per week or fortnight is simply not enough and this should not be a case of finance but it should be in the area of public amenity. Mr Moriarty said residents in the estate noticed there seemed to be a lot of activity regarding the manholes in the area over the previous fortnight. We had travelled the rough un-surfaced, ungraded roads for nearly a fortnight without mishap, but now sand had clogged the filter and the vehicle coughed to a halt. Over the next fortnight Scots football supporters are set to raise the political stakes in their pursuit of greater representation at their clubs. The adjustment will take time and effort but MacDougall believes his improvement has gathered pace in the past fortnight, since he made his first start. And if there is one consolation to spending a fortnight stuck in the jungle with an assortment of fruitcakes, it is that the experience makes you feel quite sane. On two occasions in the past fortnight I have had to take evasive action when children have either walked or run straight out in front of my car at the top of Kingshill. And just last fortnight the country's leading economic newspaper produced a page full of pie charts and graphs devoted to tracking bumps and dips in consumer viewing. Over the coming fortnight, The Daily Telegraph will accompany the Paras as they seek to drive out the insurgents, discover their arms dumps and win over the population. What was most galling was that there was no earthly reason why the Leinster final couldn't comfortably have been brought forward by a week or a fortnight. But over the past fortnight, Hunter and Gorman have been reduced to defending their integrity and business dealings against accusations that they failed to play fair. You can expect a plethora of them over the festive fortnight, and those with a taste for this kind of television must have been cheering last week. A fortnight ago, they stopped the nourishment, deliberately. Show More Sentences Torrential rain over the past fortnight made staging the show even more difficult than usual, said Mr Cothliff, who has run the event for the past five years. On arrival in Cork, the Jeanie will be dry-docked for a hull inspection that will take almost a fortnight to complete before she returns to her native Kerry shoreline. For a couple of years now I've trotted down to Soho every fortnight to pick up cheap ciggies from an air hostess who regularly brings back cartons from France. It has been more than a fortnight since this goof-up occurred and I am yet to get a proper reply from the bank. Fenn was ninth against rivals she can expect to face in France in a fortnight. This that you describe must have happened a fortnight after he died. It wouldn't surprise me if employers have noticed a spike in staff sickness and the number of duvet days taken in the past fortnight. But he admitted thinking it was a wind-up when the armband was left out for him prior to the win over the Highlanders a fortnight ago. His latest album, Last Of The Old Men, was chosen as album of the fortnight in Hotpress, a popular Irish music magazine. Instead of waiting for the arrival of blight, spray against it with Bordeaux mixture in July and then once a fortnight until September. The ball-carrying blindside has been out of action since coming off with a dead leg against Doncaster over a fortnight ago. They have also built an ecofriendly greenhouse out of plastic bottles and have just finished a switch-off fortnight to save energy. The pair fell out after a blazing row a fortnight ago and now won't even spend time in the same room together. She lasted almost a fortnight in the show and fell for campmate Peter Andre. A dance remix of their single Follow My Leader will be released on August 24, and a rerelease of their album with bonus mixes a fortnight later. At a breeze-block sized 875 pages, it'll cost a tenner in excess luggage, but it's a great read and it will keep you entertained for a fortnight. The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading. Informed consent was taken and the patient was initiated on depot medroxyprogesterone acetate injection 150 mg intramuscular, every fortnight. The pregnant model and Kieran Hayler have been spotted twice in past fortnight playing ten-pin bowling near her home. Henry met Francis I on 7 June 1520 at the Field of the Cloth of Gold near Calais for a fortnight of lavish entertainment. Show More Sentences In preparation, he joined Adam Sedgwick's geology course, then travelled with him in the summer for a fortnight, in order to map strata in Wales. Her fine speech was reported to the historian Peter Martyr d'Anghiera in Valladolid within a fortnight. A fortnight later, his body was laid beside that of Sir Thomas More in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula within the Tower of London. The list of pattimokkha is recited every fortnight in a ritual gathering of all monks. He had been party to a fatal quarrel involving his neighbours in Norton Folgate, and was held in Newgate Prison for a fortnight. A fortnight later Surtees survived the first lap rainstorm which eliminated half the field and won the Belgian Grand Prix. A fortnight after the 10th anniversary of the plant the 250,000th cash register was produced. The case went to the Court of Session, and Burnes was upheld in January 1784, a fortnight before he died. After a fortnight of intense fighting I Corps had been reduced from 18,000 men to just under 3,000 effectives by 12 November. On 28 April, a fortnight before his death, Smith had visited the same accident and emergency department to campaign against its proposed closure. The criminal Court is based at the courthouse at Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, and will initially sit on two consecutive days each fortnight. The eyes of the young open after about a fortnight and their yellow collars are visible by then as grey patches. Every summer roller blade events are organized in the city on Friday evening every fortnight and have great success. In January he was invited to visit Osborne House for a fortnight by Queen Victoria, concerned about the charming Captain Fisher. For the first fortnight of the war, Gamelin favoured Plan E, because of the example of the fast German advances in Poland. Though the French prevailed, the British were able to retreat into Quebec and hold it against a siege that lasted for a fortnight. In 1485 they laid siege to Ronda, which surrendered after only a fortnight due to extensive bombardment. The German has been on a charm offensive since being appointed Reds boss a fortnight ago. The Dordrecht 90 striker will sign a three-year deal when his current one in Holland expires in a fortnight. It managed to outfox its captors for almost a fortnight until February 17 when it was put into a cage and brought down. Show More Sentences It's been a fortnight of forevers since the Braves could count on a late-game comeback. Keith, 66, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, reckons it will take him a fortnight to put his massive collection back to Greenwich Mean Time. As I look down the road at the blue boxes each fortnight since Christmas, it seems that every box is almost empty. Japanese media reported that prime suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi, 30, has had surgery within the last fortnight but failed to return for a followup consultation. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. A fortnight later on 22 September both were crowned at Westminster Abbey. Southern Vectis announced that five vehicles had been scrapped within the first fortnight of the promotion and it had received around 6,000 enquiries. I sat watching the clock tick past my own office time, dreading the possibility that I might have to call work and ask for a day off for the second time in a fortnight. His first ministerial engagement was in the independent congregation at Clapham, where he preached once a fortnight, as assistant to Philip Furneaux. The Federal Trade Commission in recent years has seldom struck out.... But last fortnight the FTC was caught way off base, sent red-faced to the showers. The last-gasp victory ensures Widnes finish ninth and gives them four home games instead of three in the Middle Eights, which start in a fortnight. Unusually for Dickens, as a consequence of his shock, he stopped working, and he and Kate stayed at a little farm on Hampstead Heath for a fortnight. In September he spent a fortnight on the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides and saw it as a place to escape from the hassle of London literary life. The Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi has kept its poll promise as it rolled out the first instalment of freebies within the fortnight of its existence. This led the British to the conclusion that another fortnight of attacks on airfields might force Fighter Command to withdraw their squadrons from the south of England. This list of plants includes many of those native to Australia and South Africa, including fortnight lilies, Kangaroo paws, gazanias, most succulents and geraniums. Alan Swinbank's gelding showed little aptitude for the task at hand on his debut at Carlisle, but his performance at Thirsk a fortnight ago was almost revelatory. Examples from Classical Literature I could not spare more than a fortnight from work, leaving Lennard as my locum tenens. And it would be a mighty smart firm that could unbuild this place inside a fortnight. I had been a fortnight at Janenne when my intrusive phantom left me on Lorette. As to his duties as guard, even the lightest of these were forbidden him for at least a fortnight. I never saw him but during a fortnight, when I took it into my head to do trigonometry. This lasted about a fortnight, and made it hard for the unafflicted who had to do double guard duty. At the end of a fortnight he returned to Warsaw, making the trip in a stagecoach. On this Petit-Claud applied for an interpleader summons, and served notice on Metivier for that day fortnight. I'm hanging on to his taw now for the past fortnight and I can't get a penny out of him. I regret that you are gone to the east country, as I am to be in Ayrshire in about a fortnight. Why, it's only a fortnight off the day, and you're one of the tiptop skaters. I spent a fortnight in Madrid, and was made a great deal of and generally feted. He was doing well until nearly a fortnight after the injury, when nervous irritation and trismus set in, and he sank. For the next fortnight she took Oscar to walk daily, and watched him tyrannically. Leeches applied once a fortnight or month to the hemorrhoidal veins to produce a new habit. Guilty and uneasy, they lurked about squawky Hill near a fortnight, and then went to Cattaraugus, and were gone six weeks. My flood had abated only a fortnight since, and here was a stowaway escaped. They might be said to be about three weeks behind time, and the cuckoo a fortnight. They run her once a fortnight at a considerable loss between Mohammerah and Ahwaz. They might be expected in ten days or a fortnight, and could follow the legate to England. Show More Sentences It was a bare fortnight after the coming of Del Rio when out of Las Palmas came word of fresh lawlessness. Put the liquid into a glass jar or a demijohn, and let it stand a fortnight. Shut it up closely in a bandbox, and let it remain unopened for a fortnight. Once he has been in Paris, where I met him, and once to lucerne for a fortnight. They were to go to Dublin for a week, and then up to Ballyards for a fortnight. There was my annunciatory epistle written to Sally Smith more than a fortnight before! A fortnight later they reached Kukawa, the capital of Bornu, once a great Mohammedan empire. The Eolus was almost ready for sea, and sailed about a fortnight after Adair had commissioned her. The escallonia, that grows up the house, will hang its red flowers in front of the library windows for a fortnight still to come. A fortnight has passed since I left Brookline, without my being able to get at my work. A fortnight ago I was at a cabstand at the West End, talking to a cab-driver, when some drops of rain came down. I was but a fortnight in the hospital, the disease being only the fever and ague. It was about a fortnight after they had left the Falkland Islands, that they entered the Straits. They could have a char once a fortnight for a scrub-down and the heavy washing. The monthly pay of the mulazemin consists of half a Dervish dollar, and, every fortnight, one-eighth of an ardeb of dhurra. Margerine, whom we left a fortnight ago inarticulately gurgling by the trout-stream, caught the note of a step in the briar-patch. We have been here about a fortnight, and I believe we shall stay about a month longer. The wires inside the fuselage should be cleaned and regreased about once a fortnight. He used to be darkish iron-grey, but his hair went snow-white in a fortnight. The gale must have set us a long way to leeward, as we did not get in for a fortnight. Show More Sentences The assizes were to take place only a fortnight after the date of Reuben's committal. A fortnight later a bank manager was stabbed to death with a swordstick in that very part of the Bois. And the food got so uneatable that I lived on crackers for the last fortnight. Find more words! 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