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The phrase "a bare three weeks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the short duration of three weeks, often implying that it is surprisingly brief or minimal.
Example: "After waiting for a year, the project was finally completed in a bare three weeks."
Alternatives: "just three weeks" or "only three weeks".
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Exiled from his Avenue Montaigne paradise, he fell apart and was admitted to mental hospital a bare three weeks after reporting for duty: a has-been at 24.
A bare three weeks after the attacks, it is still far too early to make any accurate assumptions about the long-term impact of the attacks.
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With the bowl games at hand, the N.B.A. and N.H.L. seasons in full flow, the N.F.L. playoffs just ahead, and pitchers-and-catchers a bare six weeks away, sports fans may be wondering once again why all this repletion isn't more satisfying.
A bare two weeks after that, Walt Disney's Touchstone Pictures expects to release "The Hot Chick," a Happy Madison comedy in which Mr. Sandler puts in an appearance in support of his friend Rob Schneider, who portrays an attractive female teenager caught in the body of a not-so-attractive older man.
By Roger Angell With the bowl games at hand, the N.B.A. and N.H.L. seasons in full flow, the N.F.L. playoffs just ahead, and pitchers-and-catchers a bare six weeks away, sports fans may be wondering once again why all this repletion isn't more satisfying.
In the summer heat, for example, a body can go from flesh to bare bones in a mere two weeks.
I give driver a bare fifteen per cent, maybe a little less.
A bare minimum four weeks off a year is far better preparation for a lifetime of working until they are 70, isn't it?
A long three weeks.
When it approved a bare-bones budget six weeks ago, the Legislature provided that authorization for spending held over from previous fiscal years, known as reappropriations, would expire today.
Harris has six three-person crews that can usually construct a course from a bare piece of property in fewer than three weeks.
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