Sentence examples for fortnight during which from inspiring English sources

A relaxing fortnight during which I will do nothing but sit in a chair, sucking on Silk Cuts and mainlining Marlboros, with the odd fragrant Camel to follow.

Speaking after a fortnight during which at least 390 people lost their lives in disasters involving capsized vessels, Letta announced that Italy would on Monday launch a military and humanitarian mission in the part of the Mediterranean he said had been "turned into a tomb" in recent days.

The week before the start of the actual baseball season is the most overheated time of the fantasy baseball year, a goofily intense fortnight during which rooms both real and virtual fill with embarrassed/serious dudes and embarrassing, serious dude smells.

The intervention comprises two hours of contact per fortnight during which peer support workers can assist participants to engage with their new services, or other social and community activities.

Then came the Brits performance a fortnight ago, during which she looked uncomfortable playing the pop princess in corset and fishnets, and being hoisted aloft by her dancers.

There was a fortnight or so during which I was absolutely obsessed with them, and found myself watching them again and again and again.

She told the phone-hacking trial at the Old Bailey that the incident came at the end of a fortnight of turmoil in July 2011 during which she closed the News of the World, resigned her job and spent 12 hours in police custody while, in the background, Tony Blair and Piers Morgan sent her messages of support and Michael Gove said he was keen to see her.

Weber may have to wait a fortnight for his UK visa to come through, during which time Steven Goertzen will carry on as caretaker boss.

After a bloody campaign during which 151 people were killed a fortnight ago in Pakistan's second deadliest terrorist attack, on Wednesday a militant blew himself up hours after polls opened.

Johnson, speaking in the Commons earlier on Tuesday, claimed Trump's military assault on Syrian warplanes a fortnight ago was an "emphatic message that the era during which Assad's barbarism met with passivity and inaction has finally come to an end".

For example the common reference in British usage to a fortnight (or two weeks) comes from the period of time during which Roman soldiers would rotate through duty on the Wall where they patrolled the along the wall and slept in the turrets and wall forts (thus fortnight).