Sentence examples for final a fortnight from inspiring English sources

Despite playing for 89 minutes with 10 men, they beat Boreham Wood in the National League play-off final a fortnight ago.

It accounted for 49% of the TV audience throughout its 85-minute run, and was 1.3 million ahead of the audience for The X Factor final a fortnight ago.

But Tessa Jowell, culture secretary and Olympics minister, who anticipated the switching of the cup final a fortnight ago, said: "When Wembley is built it will be the finest stadium in Europe and it will be there for decades, so if it is ready five weeks late, that will be forgotten".

After pushing Federer down to third in the world rankings last month, Djokovic is threatening to topple Nadal from the number one spot and beat the Spaniard in the Indian Wells final a fortnight ago.

It was a disappointing end to the season for the Giants, who clinched the Elite League title in February before losing to Nottingham Panthers in the Challenge Cup final a fortnight ago.

They defeated Down champions Ballycran in the club hurling semi-final a fortnight ago, before an opening defence of their Ulster club SFC title ended in a comfortable preliminary round win over Fermanagh champions Derrygonnelly last Sunday.

There is a tautness about watching 16 teams in four groups, straight into a quarter-finals a fortnight later and the final itself a further week on.

If the first FA Cup final to be played at the Millennium stadium in Cardiff takes its cue from the Worthington Cup final there a fortnight ago the spectacle should be worthy of its setting.

It helped that Hull City were at half-tempo before their FA Cup final in a fortnight, because while Paul Lambert's team deserve credit for playing with enough zest to prevail after a run of one point from six games, needing to win away to Manchester City or Tottenham Hotspur to stay up might have been a big ask.

It is now for the country's various armed factions to decide whether Colombia will still be celebrating after the final in a fortnight's time, regardless of whether its team makes it.In this section A gathering twilight Lost leaders Burning He's demented Gold and goals Reprints.

Isaac, who asked for his real name to be withheld after calls by rightwing groups for attacks on Muslims, agreed to share with Guardian Australia his impressions of the young man he met in the mosque that day, and got to know over the next few months, until a "bizarre, concerning" final encounter a fortnight ago.