Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 2 | Question : Which piece of equipment works for you for 365 days a year , 24 hours a day , saves you money , protects your reputation , helps you comply with the law , and is expected to function without complaint for up to 10 years ? |
| 3 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 4 | they expect me to pay another three hundred pounds a month out of seven hundred and twenty pounds net income , leaving me with twenty pounds a month to live on . |
| 5 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 6 | They dealt with something like 5000 letters a week and interviewed up to 500 petitioners on behalf of children still in Germany . |
| 7 | Well , twenty six I think it 's something like is n't it something like two pounds a gallon now ? |
| 8 | But obviously in a recessionary period , which we are certainly not out of yet , you have to remember that Alton Towers has a per cap of something like fourteen pounds a head at the moment , er , average of all people . |
| 9 | He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) . |
| 10 | This is something like twelve times the number of flights G-BEBP had carried out when the failure occurred . |
| 11 | The pressure exerted on that front foot when it is brought down in the bowling action is something like 10 times the bodyweight . |
| 12 | However , even simple estimates for the W particle suggest that it should weigh in at something like 30 times the proton 's mass . |
| 13 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 14 | Parents come on an observation day first , then accompany their children for one to two hours a day , five days a week . |
| 15 | All prospective CAB voluntary advice workers will be told that they may be required to make a commitment of one to two days a week to a bureau as well as six sessions a year of in-service training after their basic training . |
| 16 | Luckily I only see him one to three times a year — when I need money usually . |
| 17 | However after one to three years a signal , possibly hormonal , causes them to don the silvery camouflage of sea fish . |
| 18 | Three months ago , Christine decided to restrict herself to two nights a week working at Anglia Television and concentrate on writing and on spending more time with Doc D , thinking up new projects for them both . |
| 19 | I said no nobody is going to be able these days woman not be able to support herself on twenty hours a week which is what Karen does putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 20 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 21 | How could she possibly do her best to forget Ross when she was now forced , for the very best of reasons , to live cheek by jowl with him for twenty-four hours a day ? |
| 22 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 23 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |
| 24 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 25 | The rectangular piece of perspex which acted as a windscreen , provided little if any protection from the cold wind which was currently hitting him at sixty miles an hour . |
| 26 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 27 | There 's not much point in paying out over £100 if you 're only going to use it for two weeks a year on holiday . |
| 28 | He sat in it for fourteen hours a day , hoping to get about £2,000 for all the appeals which lay before him . ’ |
| 29 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 30 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |