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Example sentences for "three weeks"

  • They can thereafter be taken from the storage place every two or three weeks, so as to secure a succession.

  • After fruiting, a thorough weeding is effected, and the runners are cut every three weeks; and before the frosts set in, the beds are given a top-dressing of old manure.

  • Oh, but I write now but once in three weeks; iss, fais, this shall go sooner.

  • I have a mind to turn that puppy away: he has been drunk ten times in three weeks.

  • Sure you do not deceive me, Stella, when you say you are in better health than you were these three weeks; for Dr.

  • Others are of my mind, but it is not reckoned so safe, it seems; yet I doubt whether the peace will be ready so soon as three weeks, but that is a secret.

  • You shall have a copy as soon as ever it is finished, which my printer says will be in three weeks.

  • Well, on that day my commanding officer ordered me to take six troopers and to go and occupy the village of Porterin, where there had been five skirmishes in three weeks, and to hold it all night.

  • In three weeks he had consumed all his stock of ardent spirits.

  • And the brigadier added: "Polyte has been sleeping there for three weeks, for the thief has no place of his own to go to!

  • That went on three weeks, as long as he stayed.

  • And my three weeks' hard work has got to go into the ignominious pigeonhole.

  • You have been with me three weeks only, and half your wages have been paid for board.

  • His name is Herbert Mason, son of the Widder Mason that died two or three weeks since.

  • Besides this he had six dollars, which, in three weeks, he had saved from his wages.

  • I started two days afterwards; had a good leisurely time, as the paper wasn't to be out in three weeks.

  • Take a March picture I jotted there two or three weeks since.

  • Well, besides your three horses, there's been an odd team now an' agen for the fortnit or three weeks I been here.

  • I met him sixty or eighty mile beyond the Darling, on the Thargomindah track, three weeks ago.

  • Now let me glance at two of my own alternatives, each of which has immediate bearing on the incident I am about to relate: Three weeks ago (from the present writing) I had open choice of all the dates in twenty-two diaries.

  • Three weeks ago I observed that there was a kind of cabal between four or five notables of the town of Isola, where I live.

  • Three weeks after, the minister summoned me to say that he had spoken of me to M.

  • I put myself on diet, and in three weeks I was perfectly well.

  • Lady Wicketts and Miss Fosby are staying on at the Manor for a fortnight or three weeks, as the country air does them so much good.

  • It will be for some evening during the next three weeks.

  • The vegetables which make up for the absence of bread and meat provide food for April and May, while the remarkably fine harvest, almost spontaneous, is three weeks in advance.

  • Again, three weeks later, "Food is still very scarce and poor in quality.

  • Chaumont said, that the Bonhomme Richard, and other vessels, if required, might be in readiness before the expiration of three weeks.

  • Jean is going away to-morrow, I shall not see him again for three weeks.

  • When I left her, three weeks ago, she was so agitated, so moved!

  • But no, she would not go, she would not see Jean again till the evening, when she would give him that decisive explanation for which she had been preparing herself for the last three weeks.

  • In two or three weeks we shall work the stiffness out of her joints and have her performing as smoothly and softly as human muscles, and then we shall speak out the big secret and let the world come and gaze.

  • I had a relation living in New Bedford, a Mr. Ross, at whose house I was in the habit of spending occasionally two or three weeks at a time.

  • In this time he gathered no less than five thousand six hundred, and says that he would have had no difficulty in loading a large ship with oil in three weeks.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    died unmarried; her hair; large island; then home; three blades; three boys; three centuries; three cheers; three daughters; three different; three dollars; three eggs; three equal vertical bands; three families; three grains; three judges; three miles from the; three million; three ounces; three rooms; three rows; three seconds; three specimens; three stars; three vertical; three vessels