Howard Jacobson

I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.

British Novelist

Katherine Jenkins

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Welsh Musician

Tom Stoppard

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

English Dramatist

James Lind

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.

Scottish Scientist

Eamon de Valera

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Irish Statesman

John Hume

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

Irish Politician

Henry David Thoreau

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

American Author

Samuel Johnson

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

English Writer

Joseph Chamberlain

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

British Politician

Samuel Richardson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

English Novelist

Mainly used in British English and not as common in American English, where 'two weeks' is preferred.

British Term

Often used to talk about events that are happening soon, can be upcoming or in the near past.

Future Plans

Specific for indicating that something lasts for 14 continuous days.

Time Span

 to check that her children are safely home. Then there is another couple, there is a Brazilian couple. They've lived in Italy for a number of years. They Skype with their families a few times a week. But once a fortnight, they actually put the computer on their dining table, pull out the webcam and actually have dinner

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 Philip there's not a particular time that elephants will necessarily go into must together they do it it's normally fortnightly or every three weeks once they become or get to sexual maturity so

Fortnight

British Term

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