fortnight
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When the war began a fortnight later, however, and hedge funds rushed to not just deleverage their books but to de-gross them, gold slumped.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
The US rapper had a string of performances in Europe lined up over the coming months, but several have been cancelled or postponed in the last fortnight.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
Within a fortnight of Kebatu's release, it emerged that two other men had been freed in error - both from the same prison, London's HMP Wandsworth.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Her Easter sermon comes just shy of a fortnight after her installation as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, during which she said her teenage self could "never have imagined the future that lay ahead".
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
We passed through the border without a problem and arrived in Lobatse in the late afternoon, where there was a telegram for me from Dar es Salaam postponing my trip for a fortnight.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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