Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Keeping a relationship alive needs an open and honest dialogue .
2 She turned a key four times a day — a quarter of a millimetre at a time .
3 Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ?
4 Since joining Film ‘ 72 on a three-week contract Barry Norman has watched an average five movies a week on behalf of the public .
5 He was allowed home but needs to use a nebuliser six times a day to get drugs and oxygen to his lungs .
6 It would be valuable , if people had the spare cash , to line damp rooms with some form of insulating material before wallpapering them : for want of that small capital outlay , they may spend more on frequent re-decoration than they otherwise might have saved : but since the outlay in papering a room three times a year is piecemeal , it is possible , while root-and-branch solutions to the problem are not .
7 For example , does taking a tablet three times a day mean every eight hours or three times during waking hours ?
8 I also do a paper-round six mornings a week .
9 Miss Bayliss , of Boode Croft , Stockbridge Village , Liverpool , said she stopped having sex and had a bath three times a day for months after the search in December 1988 .
10 Dosage : For general conditions , take a wineglassful three times a day every four hours .
11 For the previous three years , Nottingham police forced an average 2,561 drivers a year to stop their cars , get out of them and blow into a plastic bag .
12 The Bureau publishes a Newsletter three times a year which gives information on new versions of the models deposited with the Bureau , on recent Bureau Discussion Papers and on the Macroeconomic Modelling Seminar programme it arranges .
13 Boys have an average 3.4 snacks a day — twice as many as girls .
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