fortnight

[ˈfɔːrtnaɪt]

Definition:
1. Two weeks.
2. A period of fourteen consecutive days.

Use 'fortnight' in a sentence:

1. Now nicknamed Bertie, he's visited more than half a dozen times in the last fortnight.
2. But after a fortnight using my new vehicle, I'm pleased with the purchase.
3. But once a fortnight, they actually put the computer on their dining table,
4. That may be so, but on the evidence of the past fortnight, their suspicion appears justified.
5. This was one of those games, played almost a fortnight back, where winning was a not a criteria.
6. A day, two days, a fortnight.
7. For a fortnight ， my master sent me to a neighbour's farm for another kind of training ， which was very useful to me.
8. This work will tie me up for fortnight.
9. We may not have a fortnight. We may not have a day.
10. He had tried a hundred names in the last fortnight, but none of them sounded right.
11. Bolivia's customs service says that over 80, 000 vehicles were registered in a fortnight.
12. Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent minded actions for a fortnight.
13. The patient lived out another fortnight.
14. In the past fortnight they have captured four more big ships.
15. They were condemned to spend a fortnight of idleness at that lonely island.
16. It's been in the car for more than a fortnight.
17. He clean the car once a week , a fortnight, etc.
18. Got a job bottle-washing at the brewery. I lasted a fortnight. I couldn't stick it.
19. He had stayed at the pension for a fortnight.
20. They shall be forwarded to you within a fortnight and further , communication will follow.
21. If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within the fortnight.
22. A fortnight passed in a flash.
23. At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
24. We stopped for a fortnight at a camping site on the southern shore of that lake.
25. Would it be acceptable to the board if I deferred the submission date by a fortnight?
26. The team at the University of Munich followed nearly 400 people for a fortnight.
27. At first glance, the events of the past fortnight look mildly encouraging.
28. If you'll believe me, I did not once put my foot out of doors, though I was there a fortnight.
29. They came once every six months and lasted a fortnight.
30. We arrived safe, at Boston in about a fortnight.
31. You need a break. Why not take a fortnight off from work?
32. Certainly I have; in a fortnight or three weeks' time, that is to say, as fast as I can get there!
33. I will be back home for a fortnight.
34. He has been working hard and is entitled to a paid vacation of a fortnight.
35. I have been experiencing a stinging pain, depriving me of my sleep during the past fortnight.
36. With his brains he should be able to run a house for a fortnight.
37. It's the first so-called mercy flight for a fortnight as the Americans have been waiting for enough people to fill a 747 jet.
38. The last fortnight of their journey had been a misery.
39. The world's languages, which number about 6900, are reckoned to be dying out at the rate of one a fortnight.
40. My daughter comes to visit me once every fortnight.
41. It used to take a fortnight to travel from London to Edingburgh by coach, however you can now travel many times around the world in that time.
42. Two weeks is a fortnight.
43. I saw him a fortnight ago.
44. The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said.
45. The allegation comes less than a fortnight after Yahoo said hackers had stolen data about many of its users.
46. Take a week off every third or fourth week, or go long every fortnight instead.
47. I left a fortnight ago, owing to a disagreement with the president Mr. Liu.
48. The benefits last at least a fortnight longer than the vacation and can be felt for months in some cases it is claimed.
49. A fortnight later: that's 23 rd June. can you give me the time for a flight then?
50. I've got some leave due to me and I was going to Tasmania for a fortnight.
51. He will visit once a fortnight to see how his new staff are progressing.
52. The builder said at a rough estimate the job would a fortnight to complete.
53. It was a fortnight later she phoned to tell me her symptoms. They were identical to mine.
54. Having chosen a meditation it is important that you stick to that meditation for, at the very least, a fortnight.
55. She works six nights every fortnight.
56. I left them a fortnight ago, owing to a disagreement with the president Mr. Lau.
57. It was dead within a fortnight.
58. Over the past fortnight, the Australian dollar has recovered 9 per cent against the greenback.
59. Douglas: Now, we've been in contact for the better part of a fortnight.
60. These outfits sometimes provision a thousand servers every fortnight.
61. In the past fortnight, more than 100 people in the city are reported to have been killed.
62. This is an argument I have heard many times over the past fortnight, and in quite surprising places.
63. Clearly Gillard has looked too confected, and her pitch in the first fortnight sounded too scripted.
64. Nobody had seen the prisoner for a fortnight, and we all thought that he had probably left the moor.
65. Bolivia's customs service says that over 80,000 vehicles were registered in a fortnight.
66. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
67. She was sick all the next day ， and on Saturday went home ， quite tired of her fortnights fun.
68. In the last fortnight we have seen the stark truth about Fifa.
69. Her daughter's birthday is Monday fortnight.
70. I hope to be back in a fortnight.
71. I don't think the full text will be ready for a fortnight or more yet.It will probably be about fifty pages.
72. He's had three accidents in the past fortnight.
73. The exact sequence of events that resulted in American forces being ordered into action just over a fortnight later is now hotly disputed.
74. The judges will then decide how long they believe he should spend behind bars, before making that announcement a fortnight later.
75. The gap left where a tooth was drawn a fortnight ago has lost its soreness.
76. Mrs. Bennet could certainly spare you for another fortnight."
77. He had been stayed in there fortnight.