Converse of object

• spend: She spends two separate fortnights each year in respite care at a local nursing home to provide a break for John.

• meet: We meet once a fortnight to discuss Co-op business.

• collect: Your white sacks will therefore be collected every fortnight starting from the 19th June 2006.

• update: This section of the Engage East Midlands website will be updated every fortnight.

• wait: You can avoid this by adding the new fish one at a time, and waiting a fortnight before adding another.

• publish: The Bulletin is the staff newsletter and is published every fortnight during term time.

Adjective modifier

• nine-day: And at Pendle Boro Council a work-life balance agreement includes the option of working a four-day week or nine-day fortnight.

• next: Over the next fortnight most of the big stores will announce their seasonal trading figures.

• last: Within the last fortnight there has been a drop in the Pig sector.

• coming: There may be more on this over the coming fortnight.

• whole: I have, in my working days, sat up a whole fortnight with only a few winks of sleep.

Modifies a noun

• magazine: Fortnight Magazine 's monthly chronology of ' the Troubles ' .

• holiday: Photographs of pit ponies from Aberaman Colliery during miners ' fortnight holiday.

Noun used with modifier

• day: I shall expect your clear decision when I return this day fortnight.

Possessives

• holiday: My fortnight's holiday was about £ 850 which seemed to me a very good deal.

• worth: Sign Up LEBANON CRISIS Emergency Food £ 55 provides a displaced Lebanese family of four with a fortnight's worth of food.

• time: A further 27 will start in a fortnight's time, " he added.

• leave: Once upon a time the big firms used to take a fortnight's compulsory leave at the same time - " trips week " .

Preposition: in

• sun: I had a great fortnight in the sun, in a truly incredible country.