Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [num] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encourage 15 minutes of exercise three times a week , plus a healthy diet , for optimum results . |
| 2 | ‘ And is it ‘ refreshing ’ to be inhaling particles of cotton twelve hours a day ? ’ |
| 3 | The Birmingham-based company is understood to be the first in Europe with its ‘ AutoDeal ’ service which offers investors a telephone dealing system enabling them to place a purchase or sale order in the new BT shares from the start of trading 24 hours a day seven days a week . |
| 4 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
| 5 | HCIMA will issue Certificates , Diplomas and Records of Achievement three times a year in February , May and October . |
| 6 | One teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in a glass of water three times a day , or potassium citrate ( sachets can be bought from the pharmacist ) help to make the urine less acid . |
| 7 | But having got into the routine of taking three teaspoonfuls in a cup of water three times a day , because she felt it ‘ gave her energy to keep her going ’ , she became really addicted and unable to cope without a regular fix . |
| 8 | I go into town four times a week ; taking the bus and getting the taxi back with the shopping — it 's too far to walk from the bus stop with all the bags on the way back . |
| 9 | It 's a sad comedown for the mighty apple : polished with wax to inhibit aging and sprayed with pesticide 16 times a year , it is turning into just another product of the global factory farm . |
| 10 | ‘ Should you refuse to cooperate , ’ he went on , ‘ I must warn you that as from this evening each member of your family and household staff will be under surveillance twenty-four hours a day by a team of Commissioner Zen 's men from Rome . ’ |
| 11 | but I just er , I do n't see any point in cooking three meals a day and washing dishes three or four time I do n't find it satisfying , not that this is extremely fulfilling but |
| 12 | That work will be in progress 24 hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 13 | West-Burnham in chapter 6 outlines an analysis which can be applied to a wide range of situations from the individual project to a whole school programme . |
| 14 | A happy home situation does not depend upon there being a housewife in residence twenty-four hours a day , nor on a woman doing all the housework herself . |
| 15 | It wo n't be a special treat any more once they 're coming back from nursery three times a week on a bus will it ? |
| 16 | I go to college three days a week and I do furniture restoration which is upholstery one day polishing |
| 17 | I said , well your mum 's been out to work five days a week and you just help |
| 18 | Well she did work full time in London , but she said that was to much for her so she 's , she did n't work at all , now she 's gone back to work three days a week in Orpington I think . |
| 19 | Well , how about this for a scenario : twenty years of solid touring and recording for major names ; a niche in the elite ‘ who 's who ’ of session guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic ; featured on television three times a week backing major artists live on a very hip chat show ; going straight into production for another live prime-time show on Saturday nights ; and work with Tom Jones , Al Jarreau , Stevie Wonder , Mica Paris , Cindi Lauper , Bob Geldof and Curtis Stigers , to name but a few . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's difficult , faced with the marvellous food on offer twenty-four hours a day . |
| 21 | She kept a secret diary which revealed that he spoke on average 3.5 words a day , she told a divorce judge . |
| 22 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 23 | Between 1961 and 1970 local authorities and new town corporations in the United Kingdom built on average 161,000 dwellings a year , and in 1967 the public sector ( including a small contribution from housing associations ) completed 211,000 dwellings — 51 per cent of all housebuilding completions . |
| 24 | In both 1976 and 1985 councillors spent on average thirteen hours a month on electors ' problems . |
| 25 | Altogether , Edward I presented on average twenty-six candidates a year to church livings , more in the years after 1290 . |
| 26 | A more interesting survey is the one by Durex , which reveals that Lancastrians have sex on average 77 times a year — which astonishingly makes them top of the league . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that both mother and teacher said that he was always like this , it happened on average three times a day only after he was asked to do something other than play by himself . |
| 28 | We already know that the PB occurs on average three times a day , when a set task interferes with playing by himself . |
| 29 | As head of Section D , he needed to be on call twenty-four hours a day and besides the normal phone had a secure line routed directly to his office . |
| 30 | A federation representative is on call 24 hours a day by mobile phone . |