Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] once a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards . |
| 2 | ‘ Are accounts produced only once a year ? ’ |
| 3 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 4 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 5 | They were made to write home once a week , proudly enclosing copies of their glowing write-ups from the newspapers , hoping that a neighbour could be found to help out with any reading difficulties . |
| 6 | It started happening about once a fortnight , then about once a week . |
| 7 | But many borrowers — nearly 3 million on ‘ budget ’ repayment schemes — wo n't feel the draught immediately because their monthly repayments are adjusted just once a year . |
| 8 | The two key protective factors are the highly competitive nature of the mortgage market and the preponderance of mortgage budget schemes which are altered just once a year to cater for interest rate fluctuations . |
| 9 | Of the many drawbacks the most ludicrous is that applications can be made only once a year at a certain time . |
| 10 | They came together once a year to slip back into what McQuaid said were the days of their glory . |
| 11 | The publication day of Hank Stych 's book went unremarked in Tollemarche , mainly because the only bookseller in the town had not had time to unpack his new stock , and book reviews were featured only once a month in the Tollemarche Advent and then only in an obscure corner of an inner page . |
| 12 | The large number of members involved means that a full meeting of this board would be too cumbersome for the day-to-day administration of the IMF and so it meets only once a year , mainly to ratify any new proposals . |
| 13 | Their husbands , they said , only came home once a year , to father more children . |
| 14 | The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel . |
| 15 | A ‘ users group ’ meets about once a month to consider any problems over access to the signal and has proved a useful forum for discussion of wider and longer-term issues . |
| 16 | Credit for its success is due to Lord Craigton , chairman of the All-Party Conservation Committee that meets about once a month in the House of Lords . |
| 17 | The groups of ministers , backbenchers and sympathizers have been meeting roughly once a fortnight — breakfast with Lord Young , tea or early evening drinks with Mr Kenneth Clarke and somewhat perfunctory discussions with Mr Nigel Lawson ( who has already thought most thoughts ) . |
| 18 | There is of course a fine line between ‘ direct support ’ and ‘ regular monitoring ’ but the main distinction is that people in the previous category were visited at least once a week to give support or help , whereas people in the ‘ monitoring only ’ category were visited about once a fortnight or once a month so that the development officer could ‘ see how things were going ’ . |
| 19 | As Josh Gifford also pointed out , one root of the problem is that the Mildmay course has , until now , been used only once a year . |
| 20 | Half of clinics open just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a Family Planning Association survey revealed yesterday . |
| 21 | You can draw on people 's competitive instincts by having two or three teams in the Home which meet regularly once a week for a little competition . |
| 22 | Well the City in fact has twenty one Community Centres , most of which have bars , some of them only have small bars that open maybe once a week , others have very large bars , and especially the ones with the larger bars I think are willing to take on such a project . |
| 23 | Old shrub roses , particularly centifolias , enjoy clay , but flower only once a season . |
| 24 | We , we 'll meet about once a fortnight er we can actually let people know if er if all you leave names and phone numbers or whatever . |
| 25 | But those whom he had known longest remained close to him : he , Herbert Read , Bonamy Dobrée and Frank Morley would meet regularly once a fortnight or so , each in turn hosting the others at his club . |
| 26 | You can set certain programs in your autoexec.bat file to run only once a day , every 4 hours , every week or every 3 minutes , in fact any combination of time at all . |
| 27 | It was found that this was not the case , generally homework was set only once a fortnight . |
| 28 | But you see one other person who was there last night was at one time involved with a major , no longer major Scottish company which did all its substantial charitable giving anonymously once a year through its lawyers because they decided that they did not wish to be publicly associated with any particular thing and then the representative from John Lewis said last night |
| 29 | The job had one stipulation — the wooden floor had to be scrubbed completely once a week . |
| 30 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |