Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostend Ferries : P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has up to six sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Ostend , crossing time four hours ; a 60-hour return for a 4.5 metre car and two adults costs from £50 to £89 depending on sailing . |
| 2 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 3 | As she talks , the computer screen behind her bleeps regularly as pieces of electronic mail arrive ; she gets up to 40 messages a day . |
| 4 | A child who suffers up to forty fits a day is baffling doctors , who say they do n't know what 's caused the little girl 's brain disorder . |
| 5 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 6 | It attracts up to 100,000 visitors a year . |
| 7 | The bouncy castle at Brockworth attracts up to 200 children a day … and there has n't been a single accident . |
| 8 | Glass gives up to 100 concerts a year and is coming to Europe in 1991 to perform the music from Powaqqatsi . |
| 9 | The average adult spends up to 300 hours a year in the bathroom , yet surprisingly , it 's often the room that receives the least attention . |
| 10 | I see arts students ' timetables , an English student comes in for two hours a week , and he 's home for the rest of the time . |
| 11 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 12 | The sample showed milk yields up from 18.6 litres a cow a day in April to 19.5 litres in May , with 75% of the milk coming from forage . |
| 13 | She often works up to 16 hours a day and says that her role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor does not intrude on her research . |
| 14 | Extreme 's heart-throb guitarist , at No 29 with Rest in Peace , works up to 20 hours a day in the studio . |
| 15 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |