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176 examples of Fortnight in a sentence

But once a fortnight, they actually put the computer on their dining table, pull out the webcam and actually have dinner with their family in Sao Paulo.
What's worse, the entire British police force and its detectives and psychologists can't figure the mystery out, and are deceived by a half-crazed teen who hasn't eaten or drank much for a fortnight!
Every time there is a bit which is awkward, yahoo a bit of explanation (slowing the film down) or just bus along and hope the audience will go for the goo (I couldn't get back for a fortnight, so I missed Xmas, or I'm travelling more because of the drugs I'm taking!).
This film has everything,imaginary friends,murdered pets ,suspicious deaths and enough nail biting horror to keep you awake for a fortnight.
With a fortnight's training.
I watched the film about a fortnight after I read the book.
After all the turmoil, markets have been calm for a fortnight.
Farmers were ordered to hand over all remaining supplies within a fortnight.
Europe’s fortnight mirabilis was also marked by amazing – and erroneous – predictions.
A fortnight before Obama’s Cairo speech, a delegation of the United Nations Security Council visited four African countries to express concern about the resurgence of unconstitutional change on the continent.
Building Up the BRICSMANCHESTER – This year’s meeting of the BRICS in India is taking place just a fortnight after the 15th anniversary of the creation of the term “BRICs,” which I coined to refer to the major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China (South Africa was added in 2010).
The Debt DelusionWASHINGTON, DC -- A second big American interest-rate cut in a fortnight, alongside an economic stimulus plan that united Republicans and Democrats, demonstrates that US policymakers are keen to head off a recession that looks like the consequence of rising mortgage defaults and falling home prices.
Russia After And Between ElectionsMOSCOW: Communism has made a comeback and yet calm prevails in Russia, that is the curious result of the elections a fortnight ago.
Was this – a negotiation without her participation – the defining event of Clinton’s Asian fortnight?
First, there is the illiberal aspect of the holiday season: the state has no right, and no reason, to force entrepreneurs to close down, against their will (for four days December 25 and 26, and January 1 and 2) over the course of a fortnight.
It also empowers the health minister to resolve, within a fortnight, industrial action – a persistent challenge confronting Nigeria’s health sector – and would curb the use of public funds by Nigerian public officials and civil servants seeking treatment abroad.
The first fortnight in September saw successive meetings of two major Russian political groups, the Valdai Discussion Club and the Global Policy Forum.
This was remarkable in itself, given the bomb blasts just a fortnight earlier in Mumbai – a terrorist attack that claimed 26 lives and left 130 people injured.
I returned to Russia and had to be with my wife, and in the country besides, and in a fortnight I took to a dressing-gown and gave up dressing for dinner!
He went, both to enjoy a fortnight's rest, and – in that holy of holies of the people, the very heart of the country – to enjoy the sight of that uplift of the national spirit, of which he and all the town-dwellers were fully convinced.
We expected you long ago.''For about a fortnight.
You know I haven't a penny and this is only Monday: still six days before the fortnight's out.
"Have you got one of your two rooms free, and will you give him credit for a fortnight?"
At last he said to his wife:"It's Maheu who brings me this gentleman, one of his putters, to see if there is a room for him upstairs, and if we can give him credit for a fortnight."
Twenty times over they had promised to settle it, but they had not been able; they could not even give him forty sous a fortnight.
She felt a deep rancour against the Levaque woman, who had pleaded poverty the day before to avoid lending her anything; while she knew that she was just then in comfort, since her lodger, Bouteloup, had paid his fortnight in advance.
All of them had washed down their soup with a big bumper of fresh water, the good, clear drink of the fortnight's end.
Only one episode interrupted the monotony of the first fortnight: a slight fever which kept him in bed for forty-eight hours with aching limbs and throbbing head, dreaming in a state of semi-delirium that he was pushing his tram in a passage that was so narrow that his body would not pass through.
The fortnight's wages had just fallen due the day before.
The fortnight's pay is too little as it is, with their confounded idea of always stopping work."
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