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  • noun Plural form of week.

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Examples

  • I CAN wait a few more weeks, I CAN wait a few more weeks… or maybe not.

    Warning - barely edited mind splatter barbylon 2002

  • I CAN wait a few more weeks, I CAN wait a few more weeks… or maybe not.

    Warning - barely edited mind splatter barbylon 2002

  • Dear Hobbs! the weeks this summer -- think! the _weeks_

    The Sunny Side 1919

  • Others either count by Lunar years, or by weeks not _Judaic_: and, which is worst, they ground their interpretations on erroneous Chronology, excepting the opinion of _Funccius_ about the _seventy weeks_, which is the same with ours.

    Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684

  • _Jewish Luni-solar years_, [11] as they ought to be; and the _seventy weeks of years_ are _Jewish weeks_ ending with _sabbatical years_, which is very remarkable.

    Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684

  • _Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks_ (Dan. ix.

    Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History 1821-1893 A. L. O. E. 1857

  • Before I proceed to give the Jewish explanation of the prophecy, it is proper to show in what manner the answer of the angel in it, agreed to Daniel’s question, and also the reason of his using the term weeks, and not years, or times, as in the other visions.

    The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old George Bethune English 1807

  • It goes without saying that four weeks is a lifetime in politics; two weeks ago nobody outside of Florida had heard of Mark Foley -- unless you were a well-built teenaged boy.

    October 2006 2006

  • This person added that the preference of all involved was to "get a deal done sooner rather than later," which he defined as weeks rather than months.

    Cerberus Looks for 'Fresh Air' at GM 2008

  • In some accounts the gap between shipment and retail sales is improving and inventory levels are getting closer to historical averages, while on other accounts what we call weeks on hand of inventory have actually declined over the quarter.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

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