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What do people use weeks to talk about?
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What words indicate that something has been happening up until now?
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What words refer to a week?
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How do I use weeks in a sentence?
Simple sentences
The work will take anywhere from two to three weeks.
In about two weeks.
We hope Tom sticks around for a couple of weeks.
Three weeks went by.
He died four to six weeks ago.
Tom wrote this three weeks ago.
I won't be ready for weeks.
The cold lasted three weeks.
I'll be back in three weeks.
I'll be in Australia about three weeks from now.
Tom spent several weeks in Australia.
It's been weeks since it's rained.
In these past weeks, the lives of millions of people have suddenly changed.
If I wanted to scare you, I would tell you what I dreamt about a few weeks ago.
The cold weather continued for three weeks.
Finally, I have time to reply to the mail that I have received these past three weeks.
To investigate the incident would take us at least three weeks.
It'll be two weeks before you receive the article.
This baby is 3 weeks old.
This ticket is good for two weeks.
Tom broke his right leg and was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas.
The voyage to America used to take many weeks.
It rained after it had been dry for many weeks.
The rainy season will be over in another two weeks or so.
At a rough estimate, I would say the job will take two weeks.
What takes you only three days, takes me as many weeks.
Final exams are two weeks from now.
After spending three weeks looking for a job, he found a well-paid one.
Movie subtitles
It's been two weeks now.
You can get a specific time, but you have to wait like three weeks.
He was a great sailor and really popular, although, the last couple weeks, it did seem like he really had something on his mind.
That took two weeks.
Yeah, well, I guess, uh, that all started a couple weeks ago.
I worked there for two weeks while he went to Thailand for some experimental operation.
They'd only given him a few weeks to live.
Declan had been struggling for weeks and ever since returning from Thailand, we'd said that he needed to slow down, you know, because we had Jared Morehu on board, but.
Shelagh. it really is important that you relax and enjoy these last few weeks of pregnancy.
Most of their mothers took Distaval or other medicines containing thalidomide during the very early weeks of pregnancy.
It can't hurt the baby once you're about eight weeks, did you know that?
I shall be assisting the doctor for the first few weeks, so I will have the chance to make up my own opinion on such matters.
And when I looked into the clinic records -- the records, I might add, that you're so particular about -- you've missed three routine check-ups in as many weeks.
You've got your work cut out, getting a wedding together in just three weeks.
You guys broke up, like, six weeks ago.
I came every two weeks. They didn't let me see you.
What was the watchword you gave us some weeks ago?
A loss of three weeks pay.
From the first weeks, the animosity between the children was evident.
Days went by. but it could not have been predicted. that the law would arrive earlier. than in a few weeks.
Several weeks had passed since her coming and still she lingered.
This insurance policy provides for your little one and your old age, which will be here in a few weeks.
It's been on my mind for weeks.
But we're going back in a couple of weeks.
I haven't seen one in three weeks.
Two weeks pay is a lot of money for an apple.
She's been no use to me for three weeks.
At first I experimented only with dead animals, and then a human heart, which I kept beating for three weeks.
Isn't the deciding date of his bail consent 2 weeks later?
You're at 5 weeks.
I-I ONLY MET HIM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. WELL, HOW DID YOU MEET?
You've got your work cut out getting a wedding together in just three weeks.
It's in two weeks.
Rebecca. Two-two weeks is insane.
I'm getting married in less than two weeks, Patrick.
Man. Those kids love you after just a couple weeks.
Two weeks later a stranger arrives.
News and current affairs
So, in the 30 or so weeks between now and the next French presidential election, any prediction made today could be reversed, and reversed again, before the vote.
Kaufman's approach - with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature - seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago.
It is no surprise that stock markets liked the results of the stress tests that US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner administered to America's big banks, for the general outcome had been leaked weeks before.
The next few weeks will provide plenty of political drama.
Politkovskaya's is the third politically tinged killing in three weeks.
As frustrating and embarrassing as the last several weeks have been, it could have been much worse.
In the weeks since John Paul's plane left Krakow, it is clear that Poles have forgotten everything and things go on as before.
MEXICO CITY - These last few weeks have been unfortunate for Latin America.
All the leading opposition parties, whose coming together seemed unlikely only a few weeks ago, will participate.
What has been unfolding in front of our eyes in the last four weeks has been a modern and reduced version of the balance-of-power system that dominated Europe and the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
While the Orange Revolution made ordinary Ukrainians more conscious of their rights than ever before, this alone cannot guarantee that they are certain to see those rights vindicated in the coming weeks.
In a matter of weeks, Bank Underground already has established itself as a fertile source of provocative ideas.
Hadjiev's sister, the journalist Olgusapar Muradova, died in prison several weeks later, under suspicious circumstances.
The fact that in the weeks before the elections the candidates court undecided voters by trying to appear as centrist as possible should surprise no one.
If this does not happen within the coming weeks and months, then Turkey will have demonstrated that all this was just a show.
And, two weeks ago, the UN met again on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In the weeks since the debt ceiling agreement, it has become increasingly clear that good government might be impossible in the US.
The example of recent weeks gives us no cause for optimism that US legislators will rise above partisan politics and ask themselves what is best for America.
Two weeks later, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) announced the establishment of the New Development Bank.
The one anomaly is that the dollar has strengthened in recent weeks.
Much of the worst anti-Japanese bombast has disappeared from Chinese television in recent weeks, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is due to meet with Xi in Beijing this week.
CHICAGO - How will the eurozone crisis play out in the next few weeks?
A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.
It did not matter that these youthful hawkers, some no more than seven or eight years old, were often arrested, beaten, and locked up for weeks, occasionally months.
In the days and weeks ahead, there could arise occasions when the news from Cairo is not uplifting, but let us never forget that Egypt has taken a giant step, which in reality is a giant step for all Arabs.
In 2006, the French Jew Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and brutally tortured in a cellar for three weeks, resulting in his death.
None of these events sparked anything remotely resembling the public outrage of recent weeks.