Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun] a day " in BNC.

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1 He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides .
2 Er er there was just the one meal a day and a piece of bread and that was your lot .
3 I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high .
4 Running on paraffin , it costs just a few pence a day to run , and there is sufficient fuel for five to seven days continuous use , whilst radiating 170 BTU 's of heat stored in the 0.5 litre capacity base .
5 About a hundred people a day .
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