Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 2 | The 120 pupils met normally in groups of thirty , but for these occasions were divided into eight groups of fifteen , and the twelve periods a week in fact came out as two double periods , one whole morning and one whole afternoon . |
| 3 | He says , too , that children have a natural desire to organise their sound world and quotes in evidence playground games , and the complex rhythms a child will produce with percussion . |
| 4 | It may be taken as fact that during the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries a number of joint muderris/muftiliks came into existence in the provinces . |
| 5 | Only three housewives had paid domestic help at the time of the interview : two for six hours a week and one for five and a half hours a fortnight . |
| 6 | Children spend some five and a half hours a day in a classroom for 40 weeks a year . |
| 7 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 8 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 9 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 10 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 11 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |
| 12 | And tape goes past the head at about seven and a half inches a second . |
| 13 | one and a half tapes a day , yeah , it 's , it 's a doddle , but erm , not , not only have you got to know how it functions , but you 've got to know , know you 've got to fill in your , your document |
| 14 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |
| 15 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 16 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
| 17 | The new row follows uproar over Janet Sainsbury 's appointment at £11,720 a year for two and a half days a week , as chairman of South Glamorgan Family Health Authority . |
| 18 | when it got to the stage that we only open like , one and a half days a week |
| 19 | ALTP/CL Class I standards will remain almost the same , apart from a haemoglobin blood test every medical , and every five years a serum lipids ( fats ) cholesterol test . |