Example sentences of "[noun pl] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1983 the restaurant was averaging 100 covers a day , with a staff of : |
| 2 | Bringing a group of patients together is a useful way of getting patients currently content with one injection a day to enquire why they are not having two injections a day as are the other patients they have met . |
| 3 | When a Type 2 patient requires insulin , perhaps the first question to ask is ‘ One or two injections a day ? ’ |
| 4 | Although two injections a day may be desirable the next question is whether it is possible . |
| 5 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |
| 6 | If you snack between meals ( and most people do ! ) try to limit this to one or two snacks a day if you are trying to lose weight . |
| 7 | ‘ 8 snacks a day ’ kids skip meals |
| 8 | YOUNGSTERS are gorging themselves on junk food — eating up to EIGHT snacks a day . |
| 9 | Boys have an average 3.4 snacks a day — twice as many as girls . |
| 10 | WE 'VE lined up a host of money-saving offers to give you and the kids a day you 'll never forget . |
| 11 | Compulsory subjects for primary children are reading , maths , writing , art and technology , drawing and nature and there are two educational sessions a day lasting between 1–2 hours each . |
| 12 | The Course uses 12 different paired timetable slots for most modules ( see Appendix 1 ) and it is , in theory , possible to examine all modules over six working days from Saturday of week 10 through to Friday of week 11 with two examination sessions a day . |
| 13 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 14 | It was mainly equipment setting up , and then when we did rehearse we only did a couple of songs a day . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 16 | To take in the Napa Valley there is the Wine Train which makes two trips a day ; the wines , are , of course , plentiful and varied . |
| 17 | Officials of the UN Protection Force , Unprofor , said earlier that the airlift would be carried out by six helicopters which could each make six trips a day , carrying six stretchers and four other wounded people . |
| 18 | It had been hoped to make six trips a day with each helicopter carrying six stretchers and four other wounded civilians . |
| 19 | She had three or four tantrums a day and was generally very volatile in her emotional state . |
| 20 | ‘ We normally get about 100 entries a day then . ’ |
| 21 | The system is required to cope with a turnaround of some 500 entries a day . |
| 22 | It is expected that a lexicographer should be able to process some 75 entries a day doing trivial editing tasks and between 10 and 12 entries a day resolving complex editorial tasks . |
| 23 | It is expected that a lexicographer should be able to process some 75 entries a day doing trivial editing tasks and between 10 and 12 entries a day resolving complex editorial tasks . |
| 24 | As part of the campaign bidding to reverse the decision and stop up to 140 truckloads a day using roads to Teesside , a 7,033-name petition urging Government action will be presented to the Commons today by Richmond MP William Hague . |
| 25 | It is hardly surprising that the Indonesians have been so profoundly affected by their kinetic environment , for theirs is the most tectonic nation on earth , boasting some 34 per cent of all the world 's active volcanoes , and registering an average of three earthquakes a day measuring over 5 on the Richter scale . |
| 26 | But the good news is that moderate alcohol consumption ( up to 2 units a day ) seems to lower blood pressure ! |
| 27 | There is certainly some evidence that people who drink one or two units a day are less likely to die of heart disease than people who drink no alcohol at all . |
| 28 | Daily alcohol consumption was reported by 67% of the patients , with more than 4 units a day taken by 4% . |
| 29 | Some 65,000 cars a day are illegally parked and anyone unlucky enough to get caught in future could lose their driving licence for a time . |
| 30 | In 1988 the plant was scheduled to produce 992 cars a day . |