Sentence examples for weeks to kill from inspiring English sources

It takes temperatures that remain in the 30 and 40 below range for weeks to kill the bugs, which hasn't happened in many years.

For example, a naturally occurring fungus called metarhizium has been developed into a biopesticide called Green Muscle, but it takes two weeks to kill a locust, during which time a swarm could ravage thousands of hectares.

A trio of Dall sheep, for example, will have to be removed and put in a giant freezer off and on for several weeks to kill off an insect infestation in their horns.

The curious objects date from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, when the sugar and rum trade between the Caribbean and Europe was at its height and sailors regularly found themselves crossing the Atlantic with nothing other than a jackknife, a coconut and several weeks to kill.

Hanging -- by a belt, sweater, bedsheet or a single stretched sock wedged into a doorjamb -- has been by far the most common method used by inmates, most of whom have been in jail for less than two weeks, to kill themselves.

But the fungi take about 2 weeks to kill the insects.

Dr. Wible agreed with me that the best response is a treatment immediately and one in just over a week to kill any newly hatched lice.

Pack them in airtight jars and freeze for a week, to kill any lurking bean weevils, then let the jars return to room temperature unopened.

I think it comes directly from the Secretary of Defense — 'I want heads on a plate.' You'll get some people that way, but the failure of that approach is evident: they get Hussein, they get his sons, they continue every week to kill more, capture more, they've got facilities full of thousands of detainees, yet there's more insurgents than there were when they started".

The virus will take about a week to kill off the carp, according to the Guardian.

Twenty-one years ago, when we were courting, my first present to her was a.30-30 a.30-30which she used a few weeks lateriflekill her first deer.