fortnight
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A small team still goes out once a fortnight.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Over the following fortnight, the unrest escalates dramatically.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Three of top seed Zverev's five matches over the past fortnight have finished past 1am.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Less than a fortnight after that, her Olympic journey was over.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
This usually went on for at least a fortnight, by the end of which four or five items from each Junior and Senior year would have ended up in the billiards room.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Shefte: Indeed, the first two fortnights are dark and full of terrors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
If during this fortnight of fortnights, you pass at midday through Wimbledon Park, cloaked behind trees across Church Road from the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, you might sense only mild rowdiness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2017
I’ll get used to it, probably in the next few fortnights or so.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2016
“Eleven-day fortnights, 16-hour days, pages and pages of dialogue.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2016
One should observe the vow of Brahmacharya on the day of the new moon, as also on that of the full moon, as also on the eighth lunar day of both fortnights.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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