This that you describe must have happened a fortnight after he died.
There were no other visitors save for a man who came for a fortnight with his wife and seven children.
Fireplace ashes are a hazard for at least a day and can remain so for as long as a fortnight, Duran says.
A fortnight ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, accused Israel of committing "genocide" against the Palestinians.
Afghanistan was almost forgotten in Britain, until the recent upsurge in British casualties: 16 dead in a fortnight.
From that day for nearly a fortnight there were busy doings in the house.
They were to go to Dublin for a week, and then up to Ballyards for a fortnight.
We have been having this sort of thing now for ten days; no, a fortnight—a fortnight.
We have been here about a fortnight, and I believe we shall stay about a month longer.
This course of life may have lasted a fortnight; when I became heartily tired of it.
17c. contraction of Middle English fourteniht, from Old English feowertyne niht, literally "fourteen nights," preserving the ancient Germanic custom of reckoning by nights, mentioned by Tacitus in "Germania" xi. Related: Fortnightly.
