Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead .
2 It only remains for me to thank everyone who made this year both a pleasure and a challenge for me .
3 During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task .
4 That is one reason even a smoothly-run and uneventful Libyan poll took some time to complete .
5 Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers .
6 The manager may only see each volunteer once a week and should the manager be out of the bureau on that occasion , two weeks may pass .
7 He watered the jars with distilled water once a day and the mushrooms appeared after about a month ‘ if you were lucky ’ .
8 The Shankill councillor said he wants the crash barriers erected on the Springfield Road close to the scene of an accident last week when a woman and her young child were struck by a stolen car .
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