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FORTNIGHT

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fortnight substantiv

chenzină, 14 zile, două săptămâni;

this day fortnight de azi în două săptămâni;

this fortnight în aceste două săptămâni.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

This day fortnight you'll hardly be a pin the worse of it: you've lost a little blood; that's all.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

About a fortnight after the alarm, they came to a sufficient explanation, and quite undesignedly.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It can be but for a fortnight, said Henry; and if a fortnight can kill her, she must have a constitution which nothing could save.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She is to be married in a fortnight to the Earl of Dovercourt.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Steerforth and I stayed for more than a fortnight in that part of the country.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Bennet could certainly spare you for another fortnight.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It gave me the greatest pleasure to receive a letter from my uncle dated at Paris; you are no longer at a formidable distance, and I may hope to see you in less than a fortnight.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Towards night I got with some difficulty into my house, where I lay on the ground, and continued to do so about a fortnight; during which time, the emperor gave orders to have a bed prepared for me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

She had been taken to Charmouth too, and she had bathed, and she had gone to church, and there were a great many more people to look at in the church at Lyme than at Uppercross; and all this, joined to the sense of being so very useful, had made really an agreeable fortnight.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)




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