Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] twice [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Executive Committee shall meet not less than twice a year in every calendar year : decide its own procedure : elect its own Chairman and Vice-Chairman , each of whom may hold the office for a maximum period of four consecutive years . |
| 2 | You 'll pay only for the amount of cover you feel you need because the Midland Personal Accident Plan provides two levels of cover — Gold Cover and Silver Cover , for less than twice the monthly cost . |
| 3 | When his sister emigrated to Israel , the Movement introduced a visitor who called in once or twice every week . |
| 4 | Ah , but it 's y you still see it , I mean we still see it about once or twice every week . |
| 5 | Dr Mohammed said this might happen no more than once or twice every year depending how often people died . |
| 6 | The family were able to visit him once or twice a week . |
| 7 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 8 | We go once or twice a day now . |
| 9 | McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said . |
| 10 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 11 | We cross the border once or twice a week . |
| 12 | At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less . |
| 13 | Have poultry once or twice a week . |
| 14 | Join an evening yoga class ( once a week ) ; do aerobics once or twice a week , plus a thirty-minute walk three times a week . |
| 15 | Zuwaya made peace about once or twice a month . |
| 16 | Another 17-year-old girl kept up a regular correspondence with her natural mother and went to see her once or twice a year referring to her as an ‘ auntie ’ . |
| 17 | The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day . |
| 18 | However , to maintain this amended behaviour pattern , it may be necessary to repeat this training once or twice a week to ensure that it is permanently reinforced . |
| 19 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |
| 20 | If there is no other system of air-conditioning , and the window can not be open all the time because of draughts or security , it should at least be opened once or twice a day for a spell . |
| 21 | I have a small horse which I show jump once or twice a week . |
| 22 | He is ridden up and down the hills at home and , when the weather is reasonable , taken for gallops once or twice a week . |
| 23 | The WRVS are also looking for additional meals on wheels drivers , for just a couple of hours once or twice a month . |
| 24 | You can then reduce the skin brushing to two or three times a week and the massage to once or twice a week . |
| 25 | Important : This relaxation exercise is most beneficial if practised once or twice a day on an empty stomach , or at least an hour after eating . |
| 26 | I thought , as most people probably think once or twice a year , that I should never be the same person again . |
| 27 | I thought of the hundreds of others of us who said something like that once or twice a week . |
| 28 | In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose . |
| 29 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 30 | Coleman , in a letter of 17 February , proposed that an infirmary should be prepared in part of the Woolwich stables , where he could attend once or twice a week . |