Sentence examples for several weeks work from inspiring English sources

Density of pile is about 300 knots to the square inch and a weaver completes about 8,000 per day; several weeks' work is needed to produce an ordinary carpet, and possibly months for a more complex one.

This summer, an idealistic young New Yorker spent several weeks working with poor children in India.

While the government denied culpability and both sides took strong positions in public, intermediaries spent several weeks working behind the scenes to secure an agreement.

Mr. Giuliani and his circle of advisers had spent the last several weeks working the phones to drum up support for Henry F. Wojtaszek, the Republican chairman in Niagara County, who had begun publicly campaigning for the job only in recent weeks.

Nonetheless, Rupert Murdoch paid out the lion's share of his salary, a gesture that unnerved Mr. Chao so much, he spent the next several weeks working at a local McDonald's.

So, to spend several weeks working on a single image for a cover — and thinking about how to communicate only visually — has been very instructive to me as a cartoonist.

Last summer Wainwright's marketing team spent several weeks working around the clock to flesh out the puppet's personality, history and emotional life.

Delbridge spent several weeks working in two factories, one a car-parts maker in South Wales, the other a television assembly plant in the south of England.

Brown has been in the kitchen for several weeks working on the menu for the modern American restaurant.

But The Washington Post, one of Vargas' previous employers, actually could have run the piece first but decided not to, after spending several weeks working on it.

The benefits also include several weeks of work experience at the Guardian Media Group.