Example sentences of "' [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it had made unhitching the Lorrimores ' car a comparatively quick and easy job . |
| 2 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 3 | In an effort to meet its 1991 inflation target , the government in October 1990 concluded with the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) and the Employers ' Association a pact for the following year : average wage increases would be below 13.4 per cent ; the working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours ; the minimum monthly wage for industrial and farm workers would rise by 15 per cent , as would most pension and social security payments ; labour disputes were to be resolved through negotiation rather than industrial action . |
| 4 | PUFFS Co-ordinator Sue Grant said they intended to make the unofficial smokers ' carriage a daily feature until the ban is dropped . |
| 5 | You can — in a positive way — by helping the Rochdale Group make their Auction of Artists ' Work a huge success . |
| 6 | We have innumerable paths that need constant work but due to financial pressures the lucky ones might only receive around six weeks ' work a year . |
| 7 | After his second retirement eight years later , he was again ‘ let down lightly ’ , by doing a few days ' work a month on market research . |
| 8 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 9 | The two-year job as a member of South Glamorgan Health Authority is worth £5,000 a year , for two days ' work a month . |
| 10 | Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged . |
| 11 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 12 | Upon registration of a contract by LCH : " such contract shall be replaced by novation … novation occurs when , with all the parties ' consent a new contract is substituted for one that has already been made … by two open contracts , one between the seller and the Clearing House as buyer , as principals to such contract , and one between the buyer and the Clearing House as seller , as principals to such contract . " |
| 13 | Er another er rather another er on that tack of course talking about er well in this case a skeleton , I had a job to do just shortly before they closed Coney Street off fully and e it was myse I was on my own and I had t to pick up some dummies from er a ladies ' shop a dress shop . |
| 14 | ‘ I jus ' need a good night 's sleep , ’ she replied . |
| 15 | The BHS Training and Exams Committee have organised this to give those on the Instructors ' Register a fair chance of attending a refresher course . |
| 16 | I 'll jes ' tie a knot in y'drip-feed , an' embezzle all th'funds . ’ |
| 17 | In scenes reminiscent of the miners ' strike a decade ago , one policewoman was injured and 14 people were arrested . |
| 18 | As we reported in this space in January , World Cup broadcast managers TSL did the United States ' game a disservice by making a deal with a network which showed the World Cup final almost four months after it was played . |
| 19 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 20 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 21 | In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise . |
| 22 | Rupert 's surviving on 5 hours ' sleep a night . |
| 23 | Quotas can be introduced , which might or might not be tradeable between farmers ( David Baldock of the IEEP suggests that within the National Farmers ' Union a debate over quotas ended with victory for those in favour of no such regulation ) . |
| 24 | St. Thomas ' Baby Fund has been set up to raise money to make the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at St. Thomas ' Hospital a super centre for women 's preventative medicine . |
| 25 | Japan 's justice ministry wants to give investors ' resentment a readier outlet . |
| 26 | Since the termination of the defendants ' employment a company in the same group as the plaintiffs had opened a number of Bureaux de Change in Paris . |
| 27 | He was followed in the same debate by a junior who informed the representative body that even if we did not vote for the juniors ' motion a solution would be imposed by the Department of Health in conjunction with the juniors whether we liked it or not . |
| 28 | Mudlarks ' garden a heap of fun |
| 29 | For example , many people have four weeks ' holiday a year , but not many people can take that four weeks all in one go , there are usually restrictions that you can only take maybe a maximum of two weeks . |
| 30 | While locality links are planned to aid general practitioners ' involvement a major thrust of this initiative is to allocate the district budget to individual practices on an indicative basis . |