Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
| 2 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 3 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 4 | Other regular earnings , for example , from a second job a few evenings a week |
| 5 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 6 | Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day . |
| 7 | Pay alimony a hundred times the roll of both dice , return to lower class ! |
| 8 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 9 | But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year . |
| 10 | So what 's different about Mark 's plan to sell components from our European plants into the United States , if we can save the Corporation a billion dollars a year by doin' so ? , |
| 11 | If the children get half a dozen whacks with a slipper a few times a year , surely it 's not abuse ? |
| 12 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 13 | She comes into the capital a few nights a week , moonlighting from her day job , which is being a seamstress . |
| 14 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 15 | And yet somebody else might have three or four thousand down , and that 's because they 're jetting off to er foreign climes a few times a year . |
| 16 | Why endeavour to demystify the ‘ subtext ’ of a lager commercial when that supposed subtext could scarcely lie closer to the surface and is being forced on one 's attention the way a card-sharper forces a card ? |
| 17 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |