Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [det] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For things they want daily or several times a week they go to the local village , or in a town they go to the local suburban shops , or the ‘ corner ’ shop . |
| 2 | Club Keno is currently operated in participating NSW clubs 12 or more hours a day , seven days a week , with a game every six minutes and jackpots growing to more than $1 million . |
| 3 | Editor had already received the class winner 's trophy in the section for newspapers published 10 or more times a year when TV and Radio personality Barry Took opened a sealed envelope to reveal the evening 's top award . |
| 4 | Improvement was defined as showing three or less stools a day , absence or mild abdominal pain , no fever , pulse rate ≤90 beats/min , and a 10% reduction in the VHAI in each weekly evaluation of the patient . |
| 5 | ( 1982 ) found that one-third of normal 3-year-olds still wet the bed three or more times a week . |
| 6 | Children whose mothers smoke ten or more cigarettes a day after the fourth month of pregnancy tend to show poorer progress at school , at least up to the age of 16 [ 14 ] . |
| 7 | A good example is Gunton Park in Norfolk , where the fishing is let by the day , attracting 4,000 or more anglers a year . |
| 8 | Of course , smokers also pay with their health : the proportion of men aged 35 who will die before reaching retiring age is 40% for heavy smokers ( 25 or more cigarettes a day ) compared with 15% for non-smokers [ 4 ] . |
| 9 | For those who do smoke 25 or more cigarettes a day , the death rate from lung cancer is increased 20 times . |
| 10 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 11 | preparing food and drinks : 53 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 12 | clearing away , washing up : 42 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 13 | assisting with medication : 39 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 14 | dressing and undressing : 33 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 15 | When the fly is in the air , these organs which are jointed to the thorax in the same way as wings , oscillate up and down a hundred or more times a second . |
| 16 | Injecting frequency was defined as never ( no injecting ) , occasional ( averaging fewer than two injecting episodes a week ) , and frequent ( averaging two or more episodes a week ) . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that out of 1,000 young UK smokers of 20 or more cigarettes a day , one will be murdered , 6 will die in road accidents and 250 will die prematurely as a result of their smoking [ 8 ] . |
| 18 | If more than one informal carer spent seven or more hours a week on such care then we selected the one who spent most time . |