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Originally Posted by NatCh
That's a twitchy case there. To phrase it more pedantically, you're telling your employer that you intend to stop working for him after a period of time measuring two weeks. It's a matter of the notice being expressed as a measure of time. It's the same as if you buy a dollar's worth of rice. It's the worth that makes it possessive, because you're not talking about the time itself, but the measure thereof, which only has meaning as an aspect of the measurement, thus the notice is technically part of, or "possessed" by the two weeks.
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I would think that if an apostrophe were required that it would be after the s in weeks since weeks is plural it that example. But what do I know. I grew up in rural Mississippi.