fortnightly

How To Use fortnightly In A Sentence

• a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
• In addition to weekly episodes of our human rights broadcast, we were also producing 'fortnightly' (a word we had picked up from Anita and begun to employ widely!) editions of Body Shop Television -- a unique, in-store television magazine devoted to internal communication among Body Shop employees and managers. Rory O'Connor: There Was Nothing Like This Dame
• Bury council hopes that cutting down from fortnightly collections of general waste will encourage recycling and save on landfill tax and treatment costs. Times, Sunday Times
• In the US, many people do this by making 26 fortnightly payments of half their mortgage repayment, instead of twelve monthly payments.
• The company publishes a fortnightly bulletin for its staff.
• It will see standard grey household waste bins being emptied fortnightly instead of weekly, while new green wheeled bins for garden waste are collected on alternate weeks from 60,000 homes in the city.
• Voters also punished the big parties where councillors had introduced fortnightly rubbish collections. The Sun
• Householders will have their waste glass, paper and cans collected fortnightly, alongside usual refuse collections.
• In mid-March, as a White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan was nearing completion, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met in a secure Pentagon room for their fortnightly video conference with Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Kabul. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 17, 2009
• Residents blamed refuse collections being made fortnightly instead of weekly. The Sun