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Example sentences for "two weeks"

  • He must call upon his hostess within two weeks after an invitation to a dinner or ball.

  • Invitations are sent out ten days or two weeks in advance, and require prompt replies.

  • Such changes to be made at intervals of two weeks.

  • During the first six months every week, and during the last six months at least once in two weeks; once a month during the second year.

  • Two teaspoonfuls may be given daily, diluted with same amount of water, fifteen minutes before the midday feeding; in two weeks it may be doubled; and six teaspoonfuls can be given, in four weeks.

  • His first four letters came in the course of two weeks, but since then I have not had a word.

  • In two weeks he led his army, horse, foot, and guns, over the frozen seas where hardly a wagon had dared cross before.

  • So Jens Kofoed took ship with the promise that he would be back in two weeks.

  • The crew of Haabet clamored to go home, and Egede had at last to give a reluctant promise that if no ship came in two weeks, he would break up.

  • I have promised that Mr. Cameron shall visit the farm within two weeks if he behaves well.

  • Buck up and in two weeks we will let you go where you like.

  • I have been trying to get you alone for the last two weeks," said Cameron.

  • Two weeks ago I got my monthly five-pound cheque, and about ten days ago the usual fifty-pound cheque to square things up for the year, fees, etc.

  • The supportive appliance is kept in position for ten days or two weeks.

  • Vesication of the parts is in order, and this may be repeated in the course of two weeks, if it is deemed necessary.

  • In the course of ten days or two weeks, if the acute painful condition has entirely subsided, vesication is indicated.

  • The patient is kept quiet and in the course of two weeks an active blistering agent is employed over the region affected.

  • I bought this suit here less than two weeks ago, and it is rusty-looking already.

  • The pests ate my whole potato crop in two weeks," said one farmer.

  • On a late occasion, when Isaac was being chunked beyond measure, he resisted, but the persistent blacksmith did not yield until he had so far disabled Isaac that he was rendered helpless for the next two weeks.

  • If they could lay quiet for ten days or two weeks, they might then get up safe.

  • Wonderful things can happen in two weeks.

  • Now the Flossy of two weeks ago, if she could have imagined herself in any such business, would have been utterly disgusted with the result, and gone away with her pretty nose very high.

  • Just you meet the evening train of Wednesday, two weeks hence, and see if you can not discover the finger of fate having been busy with us.

  • On taking charge of the work, I called on the new comers and expressed a desire to occupy the house for the regular appointment once in two weeks, but found they were not disposed to meet my wishes.

  • I suggested that such had been the previous custom and that our appointments were so arranged, we could not work to any other than a two weeks' plan.

  • Before the end of two weeks we were compelled to return to the audience room.

  • Mrs. Fink had the stationary washtubs in the kitchen filled with a two weeks' wash that had been soaking overnight.

  • I told him I was going to get married in two weeks.

  • Yet he was different from them in several ways--older by two weeks, stronger, and marked on the neck and shoulders with what afterward grew to be a dark mane.

  • Two weeks afterward, as the wolver rode down an adjoining caƱon, he saw a Wolf come out of a hole.

  • It was to this circumstance, and not in the least to any unwillingness in the free negro to work, or to demand more for his labor than it was fairly worth, that for one or two weeks, in some places, the cultivation of the soil was not resumed.

  • If they do not get these in two weeks, our correspondent writes, there will be a dead stop.

  • Two weeks afterward, when I was beginning to get around again, the doctor laughed and said he was sure that my friend's keeping me mad all the time did more than his drugs to cure me.

  • If the West Side could claim forty-two minutes out of his forty-two weeks' bookings every year, it was an occasion for bonfires and repainting of the Pump.

  • Two weeks afterward O'Connor and me took a steamer for the small, green, doomed country.

  • In two weeks my cousin Annie Ware was to be married: if my white chrysanthemums would only understand and make haste!

  • In two weeks I had grown used to the work; the noise of the looms did not frighten or confuse me, and it did not tire me to stand so many hours.

  • I was on my knees before my chrysanthemum-bed, looking at each little round tight disk of a bud, and trying to believe that it would be a snowy flower in two weeks.

  • The State Board is also entirely favorable to concede higher wages, one day off in seven, and an annual vacation of two weeks on pay, but cannot carry these recommendations out without an increased appropriation from the legislature.

  • There accompanied her to the gathering her baby of two weeks old, the youngest of her twelve children.

  • I got three packs and two saddlers that ain't fatted up from a two weeks' trip in August.

  • I am happy to say we came to this great virgin wilderness direct with our baggage from White Oaks where we had been giving a two weeks' course of treatments--mainly charitable.

  • If it did not go at a two weeks' gait, he speedily wanted to know why.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and looked; cutting down; filthy lucre; forty shillings; friend from; give thee; seven eggs; sick child; single exception; two eggs; two eggs well beaten; two equal horizontal bands; two feet; two hours; two hundred thousand dollars; two hundred thousand pounds; two inches; two men; two miles from the; two months; two other; two things; two thousand; two thousand seven hundred; two volumes; two ways