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Sentence count:169+7Posted:2017-02-01Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: two weeksSimilar words: at nightlightningnightby nightmidnightnightmarenighttimeovernightMeaning: ['fɔrtnaɪt /'fɔːt-]  n. a period of fourteen consecutive days. 
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31) It's used once a fortnight for clay pigeon shoots.
32) Hans was sent to Bournemouth for a fortnight.
33) Take a stroll in downtown Denver during rodeo fortnight.
34) It started happening about once a fortnight, then about once a week.
35) Once, after he had been absent a fortnight, the principal tackled his parents.
36) Henry met and married this girl all in the course of one short fortnight.
37) A fortnight ago arsonists got inside the building and started a fire.
38) Goulding's move leaves Wigan's £75,[sentencedict.com/fortnight.html]000 scrum half Andy Gregory in limbo with the new season just over a fortnight away.
39) During Partition they went into hiding, and for a fortnight their good Hindu friends brought them food and water.
40) Nearly every fortnight we sail right round the island, visiting the west coast caves and picnicking under great cliffs.
41) Most of all I am eagerly awaiting his return to Wimbledon this summer to bring more fun and excitement to the fortnight.
42) Immediately after his burial on 13 November 1803, poor Mary's benefit was doubled to 4s. a fortnight.
43) A redundant fitter from the Coventry car industry in his mid-forties lives alone and receives £61.02 a fortnight.
44) When Xerxes marched from Therma, he expected to reach Thermopylai in about a fortnight.
45) I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago.
46) Even when the blossom was browned by heavy frost just before Christmas, it took only a fortnight to recover.
47) A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema.
48) Shipbuilding work at the Scotstoun yard has been at a standstill for a fortnight since pay negotiations broke down.
49) I spent about a fortnight in bed, and then felt fine again.
50) Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first.
51) Avery sat to Minton for a couple of portraits and for a period saw him about once a fortnight.
52) And that's when Gooch will say farewell, having decided before the tour not to stay for the final fortnight.
53) He left Downing Street after three or four days and Chequers after a fortnight.
54) After a fortnight, the whole of the female's back is rippling with the movements of the tadpoles beneath.
55) Tomalin could resume her normal existence and literary pursuits, putting aside the fortnight of having conscience pricked and self-control tested.
56) Her only public appearance was once a fortnight at the dole.
57) What an outstanding performance our home game with Sidcombe turned out to be a fortnight ago.
58) The issue has been discussed at senior levels within the Church in the last fortnight, Sunday Life has learned.
59) They have a grave in Golders Green: I visited it in 1947, a fortnight before my wedding.
60) The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee, which generally meets once a fortnight.
More similar words: at nightlightningnightby nightmidnightnightmarenighttimeovernightday and nightat midnightnight and dayforthrighthighlightlightmightfightrighteightyslightheighteighthmightyplightflightweighttightentightlylightlyfighterall right
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