Examples of fortnight in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the past fortnight, South Africa has gone from a weekly average of 290 cases per day to almost 3,800 daily cases. — David Mckenzie, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021 The year was 2019, and deaths—from poor conditions, a lack of food, and medical neglect—had become as frequent as one every fortnight. — Sally Hayden, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022 In the past fortnight, hope has grown manifold in the field. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022 During the Olympic fortnight, athletes and others working at the events—no foreign spectators are attending—must stay within a strict bubble as part of China’s strict Covid-19 measures. — Matt Burgess, Wired, 2 Feb. 2022 The market has, in fact, been building for nearly a fortnight. — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022 The third such attack in the last fortnight came during Israeli President Isaac Herzog's first visit to the Gulf state. — Tamara Qiblawi, Eoin Mcsweeney And Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022 In line with the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris a fortnight ago, the event will expand to take in not only recent Spanish movies but series, animation and, in the case of the Spanish Screenings, straight to digital formats. — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022 First released in February 2016, the game sold 500,000 copies within its first two weeks, quickly climbing to over a million within the next fortnight. — Michelle Delgado, Wired, 25 Nov. 2021 See More

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