fortnight

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• This that you describe must have happened a fortnight after he died.

• 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.

• A fortnight ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, accused Israel of committing "genocide" against the Palestinians.

• It appears that even the sedate Fortnight has a soft spot for star-f------.

• A primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.

• Some of the half-made hay in the meadows looks as though it had been standing out to bleach for the last fortnight.

• Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

• I shall be glad to hear from you soon, as I intend to go to Padstow in a few days and shall not return under a fortnight.

• During that fortnight of silence the whole of the Turkish Empire has been moving—closing in—on the Dardanelles.