fortnight
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The Asian Games in Japan will close later Sunday after a fortnight of record-smashing displays from young stars, but marred by mix-ups, patchy crowds and accusations of mismanagement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Over the following fortnight, the unrest escalates dramatically.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
To have one air traffic control failure in a fortnight may be regarded as a misfortune, to have two looks like carelessness.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
In that regard the family was fortunate – they only had to wait a fortnight to get the results.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The first worry lines appeared within a fortnight; the first wrinkles within a month, and before the year was out, creases abounded.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Shefte: Indeed, the first two fortnights are dark and full of terrors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
WIMBLEDON, England — For all the days and fortnights and years of the early 2010s, the horizon didn’t seem to hold in store the kind of impressionist painting of the Thursday that Venus Williams just had.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 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
You sign on for six months at a time, and only have two fortnights of leave in the year.
From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
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