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Example sentences for "fortnight since"

  • My relation who brought you up here left, a fortnight since, to rejoin Bandoola; so his influence cannot serve you.

  • I was like this when I spoke to you through the window a fortnight since, but you could not then see my figure.

  • It sailed nearly six weeks ago from Calcutta, and was to have been joined by one from Madras and, allowing for delays, it ought to have been at Rangoon a fortnight since, and would certainly capture the place without any difficulty.

  • It isn't a fortnight since we all thought him the greatest man in London.

  • It was now more than a fortnight since he had taken Mrs Hurtle to the play, and she was still living in lodgings at Islington.

  • If Marie had consented a fortnight since he might have so hurried affairs that Lord Nidderdale might by this time have been secured.

  • It was a ball on a scale so magnificent that it had been talked about ever since Parliament met, now about a fortnight since.

  • The fact of the matter was this: Nearly a fortnight since, he had met for the first time, somewhere about the corner of the Podiacheskaya, a gentleman with crape round his hat.

  • To his surprise Pavel Pavlovitch, both in dress and appearance, even down to the hat with the crape band, was incomparably neater and tidier-looking than he was wont to be a fortnight since.

  • I made him a formal proposal for her a fortnight since.

  • She borrowed twelve pounds from him about a fortnight since, immediately after quarter-day.

  • If I remember right, its not a fortnight since he left my house at Allington,--not a fortnight.

  • The Daily Jupiter, a fortnight since, had published a very eloquent article, strongly advocating the claims of Mr Optimist, and was naturally pleased to find that its advice had been taken.

  • It is just a fortnight since I wrote to you last: in all that time the rebellion has made no progress, nor produced any incidents worth mentioning.

  • It is a fortnight since I got any of your letters, but I will expect two at once.

  • You will wonder that it is above a fortnight Since I wrote to you; but I have had an inflammation in one of my eyes, and durst not meddle with a pen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adjoining room; chemical reactions; color from; could recover; cultivated ground; discovered that; dried bricks; extremely common; fortnight before; fortnight later; fortnight since; medical practitioner; memento mori; mountain sheep; often asked; other colonies; receive power; shine before; shut himself; then going; then will; took notice; twenty drops; various objects