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Example sentences for: fortnight

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"The US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, has raised the issue twice in the last fortnight with the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook," it said, adding that Washington's involvement has added to the British government's dilemma.
North American friends rightly regard as archaic my use of fortnight , this word being a survival of the old way of reckoning two weeks, by using fourteen-night.
"The quintessential Cannes fortnight, indeed, would involve no films at all--just invitations to parties that never happen and rumors of films that will never be made," says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane.
It is perfectly feasible to spend a fortnight in Eilat, exploring the Red Sea, lying on the beaches, journeying into the Negev Desert — and never see a religious building or an archaeological site.
The New York Gazette in 1731 advertised, “The Boston & Philadelphia Posts will set out to perform their Stages once a fortnight.”