Example sentences of "one [noun sg] a week " in BNC.

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1 It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers .
2 One afternoon a week , I went to do some work at the Child Guidance Clinic , and Mavis looked after Shanti on these days .
3 Under the auspices of the Pre-school Group for Parents and Children , the children and their parents enjoy a variety of activities one afternoon a week at Liphook Infant School .
4 Can you plan one afternoon a week just to enjoy yourself ?
5 One afternoon a week he received tuition from Minton whom he first saw seated on a windowsill , hugging his legs and looking as young as some of the students he taught .
6 After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop .
7 They send lecturers to the plant one afternoon a week to teach .
8 This enables our employees to use the equivalent of one afternoon a week during working hours , for approved community activities , always of course , subject to workload .
9 I used to play for the Darlington Deanery Choir one afternoon a week .
10 Well , a little thing like that should not be allowed to stand in the way of such a great man , so Mr Pozsgay now spends one hour a week in the gym .
11 Over the next ten weeks , the new assistant meets with her supervisor for one hour a week , to go through the induction programme in detail .
12 For the first ten weeks they will spend one hour a week on induction training with their supervisor .
13 Twenty-eight per cent — nearly one in three — of primary schools in the study are shaving up to one hour a week off teaching time .
14 The Profitboss spends at least one hour a week reading the best about business .
15 Only about one hour a week , right .
16 It was calculated that each child needed one pound a week for food and clothing .
17 ‘ I 'll give you one pound a week pocket-money , ’ she said .
18 ‘ How can you rent a house when you have only one pound a week in the world ? ’
19 ‘ But have you really managed to live here on one pound a week for two years ? ’
20 Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week .
21 Pensioners face a rise of only one pound a week from next April , the smallest increase for years .
22 The closure would probably have to be done in stages , eg one weekday a week to start with , though that could be worse than total closure because motorists would switch to local roads for one day , but total closure might force them to switch modes altogether .
23 In Britain , one child a week goes blind in one eye from toxocariasis while a further one-in-seven may suffer stomach aches , pneumonia , liver disease and allergies such as asthma , according to surveys .
24 Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary .
25 They were placed under the supervision of a senior student , Richard Lawrence of Birmingham , who was to have one guinea a week and board and accommodation at the expense of the College .
26 All had agreed that one Christopher E. Chryselius would be employed in the workings , and he was to he paid one guinea a week — no mean wage .
27 You will be asked to complete an application form and subsequently to attend an ACET training course one evening a week for six weeks .
28 In London , volunteer training programmes will now take place every September and February and will require an individual 's time for one evening a week over a six-week programme .
29 One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves .
30 Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine .
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