Fortnights [noun]

A primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.

Some of the half-made hay in the meadows looks as though it had been standing out to bleach for the last fortnight.

Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

I shall be glad to hear from you soon, as I intend to go to Padstow in a few days and shall not return under a fortnight.

During that fortnight of silence the whole of the Turkish Empire has been moving—closing in—on the Dardanelles.

But he would not, with his build and constitutional habit, last out here for one fortnight.

A fortnight later Isabel announced to Gwynne that she intended to give a party and introduce him to the young people of Rosewater.

But Colonel L'Estrange, who had been there about a fortnight before, found two addled eggs, but saw no birds.

For the last fortnight all has gone badly with me; my official work has been very bad.

After the lapse of a fortnight, the leaves are gathered by twos, and from these the best tobaccos are produced.