Example sentences of "once [conj] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 2 | If there is no other system of air-conditioning , and the window can not be open all the time because of draughts or security , it should at least be opened once or twice a day for a spell . |
| 3 | Important : This relaxation exercise is most beneficial if practised once or twice a day on an empty stomach , or at least an hour after eating . |
| 4 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 5 | This sometimes invisible deity is usually meant to keep an eye on the working of the account , provide advice and experience if problems arise , and share a drink once or twice a year with your managing director or chairperson . |
| 6 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 7 | ONCE or twice a year in some television studio or other I find myself bumping into Lord Parkinson . |
| 8 | Switzer noted that he could give ‘ directions once or twice a Year in most of the … |
| 9 | This fact can be used to advantage by those who drink alcohol occasionally perhaps only once or twice a week on social occasions , and not every day . |
| 10 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
| 11 | In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose . |
| 12 | Look at the habitat once or twice a week for several weeks . |
| 13 | Many couples continue to enjoy sexual intercourse once or twice a week into old age , but some people have neither the inclination or ability for this , and of course in a long relationship we do adjust to our partner 's needs . |
| 14 | Avignon , Châteaurenard , Bollène , Pertuis , all dispatch their produce by special trains to the north ; vast quantities of fruit are absorbed locally by the jam and fruit preserving industries of Apt and Carpentras ; and every little town and village has its own retail vegetable and fruit market , every day in the bigger towns , once or twice a week in less populated places . |
| 15 | The frequency of waking fell to once or twice a week by the final session |
| 16 | Returning to Queen 's , he asked for , and got , a few gigs in the students ' union — ‘ my very first one was as support act to Blackthorn ’ — and soon he was working once or twice a week round the local pubs and folk clubs . |
| 17 | One of the offences to which Gavin pleaded guilty was a specimen charge of £100 , an amount he admitted taking from the account once or twice a month between March and October 1991 . |