Weeks

Examples

• Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They only knew each other, I think, a few weeks in Bath! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Three months comprised thirteen weeks. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This lost to us the use of his troops for several weeks from the defence of the North. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For two weeks now they haven't changed them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Did not you come to our house once with Mrs. Pryor, about five weeks since, to ask after him? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I worked on this cable more than two weeks, and the best I could do was two words per minute, which was only one-seventh of what the guaranteed speed of the cable should be when laid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Why, my pet of pets, I could have told you that weeks and weeks ago! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Byllesby and the late Luther Stieringer, was completed and in operation within six weeks after the placing of the order. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Altogether, on the Isthmus and on the Pacific side, we were delayed six weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I told you we shall be married in four weeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Say, Plornish, though six weeks in arrear to my proprietor, declines. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It went into service August 15, 1882, about three weeks before the Pearl Street station. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If Napoleon had deemed it best to have continued his journey across the Atlantic to America he would have been compelled to pass several weeks on an uncomfortable sailing vessel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I don't know how long ago it was done, whether weeks, days, or hours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The first two weeks after her return represented to Mrs. Peniston the domestic equivalent of a religious retreat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In about three weeks from that time--as well as I can remember--the first warning reached me of something unusual going on under the surface. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I find he takes orders in a few weeks. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Yet, how strong the impression that only a few weeks will give! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• A man who is doing well elsewhere wouldn't bide here two or three weeks for nothing, said Fairway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I have only just recovered from nine weeks of brain-fever, and am still exceedingly weak. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Cole gave me a hint of it six weeks ago. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Yet, how strange it was to look on Mrs. Bretton's seven weeks and contrast them with my seven weeks! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A few weeks afterwards the poor woman's soul took its flight, I confidently hope, and solemnly believe, to a place of eternal happiness and rest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I did not go on the street by daylight for two weeks, as the appearance of my face was dreadful. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I was to have three weeks' convalescent leave and then return to the front. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Some weeks, I am afraid. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She had only been six months at Pinner when I met her; we fell in love with each other, and we married a few weeks afterwards. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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