Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cross the crossing eight times a day with my own two children and I would underline how hazardous it is . |
| 2 | Hodai had said that the Khan 's wives were with the clan on the Merkut hereditary pastureland a day 's ride north of Kinsai . |
| 3 | He worked at the course twelve hours a day and found it exhausting but staggeringly easy . |
| 4 | A mini-bus operates to and from the town three times a day although car hire is recommended for the less energetic . |
| 5 | We make sure that one of us is beside the phone 24 hours a day . |
| 6 | You 're on the water 24 hours a day . |
| 7 | John is quite a character and loves his role which includes shouting out the news four times a day . |
| 8 | It forced me out of the attic three times a day to discover my new surroundings and meet the local people . |
| 9 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 10 | ‘ He does the journey three times a day and does more for that community than any amount of social workers , teachers or vicars , ’ enthused Mr Gregory . |
| 11 | We were all getting fed up with it cos , having to stay on the gate five hours a day you know , three or four times a week . |
| 12 | This was partly the result of sheer indecision : during the Abdication imbroglio of 1936 , for example , he admitted to an acquaintance that " he changed his mind on the subject several times a day " . |
| 13 | Drawn by three horses abreast Shillibeer 's omnibus ran from Paddington to the Bank four times a day each way . |
| 14 | FROM the killing fields of war-torn Bosnia to the devastation of starving Somalia , guns are being fired in hatred somewhere around the world 24 hours a day , 365 days a year . |
| 15 | After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves ! |
| 16 | My window and my swivel chair Let me see what goes on out there — I check the plant six times a day [ Except when steam gets in the way ] … |
| 17 | It 's not desperately moist , although certainly one of them is cracking quite a bit , and if that helps to dry it up and make it more comfortable then it 's worth giving them a soak ten minutes a day . |
| 18 | She turned a key four times a day — a quarter of a millimetre at a time . |
| 19 | For example , does taking a tablet three times a day mean every eight hours or three times during waking hours ? |
| 20 | Oil production rose by 26 per cent to a record 850,000,000 barrels a day in 1990 ; the government also announced an increase in its total contribution to US Gulf war costs , to US$2,870 million . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's silly — four men in a room 24 hours a day , and one wo n't speak to another . ’ |
| 22 | However suicidal they may feel , there is a lifeline ; a sympathetic listener on the end of a phone 24 hours a day . |
| 23 | Janet 's counsellor Mamie Graham is on the end of a phone 24 hours a day for those who find themselves at the sharp end of crime . |
| 24 | Dosage : For general conditions , take a wineglassful three times a day every four hours . |
| 25 | Miss Bayliss , of Boode Croft , Stockbridge Village , Liverpool , said she stopped having sex and had a bath three times a day for months after the search in December 1988 . |
| 26 | He was allowed home but needs to use a nebuliser six times a day to get drugs and oxygen to his lungs . |
| 27 | She tried all kinds of diets and even when she stuck rigidly to an Energen 1000 Calories a Day diet and lost over two stone not a single inch went from her thighs . |
| 28 | Boys have an average 3.4 snacks a day — twice as many as girls . |