Example sentences of "several [noun pl] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long bandage was fixed to the bottom of the bed and he was encouraged and bullied to pull on this several times a day , and hoist himself forward and perform exercises to rebuild the muscles of his butchered back . |
| 2 | I CROSS the Széchenyi ( Chain ) Bridge several times a day , passing the gaze of its guardian lions . |
| 3 | Since in women it is a largely vaginal infection , the advantages given to the man of washing out the urethra with urine several times a day do not apply . |
| 4 | Now that his mind had been alerted , he examined himself several times a day and , when the discharge did n't go away , he decided to attend . |
| 5 | Suppose one of your subordinates keeps telephoning you for advice and help several times a day thus interrupting your work . |
| 6 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 7 | You may find that you need to do this exercise several times a day when you 're under pressure or feel tense . |
| 8 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 9 | However much I might want to keep tabs on him , bumping into him several times a day in the corridor hardly seemed the best route to anonymity . |
| 10 | In general it makes sense to change your tampon several times a day and especially to insert a fresh one before going to bed . |
| 11 | One seven-number memory bank is dedicated to key-word commands , such as ‘ home ’ , ‘ office ’ , ‘ secretary ’ and ‘ friend ’ , for the calls you make several times a day . |
| 12 | We often see the words ‘ feed sparingly several times a day ’ or ‘ feed as much as the fish will eat ’ , but frankly this is very ambiguous . |
| 13 | With work and other commitments , it is not often possible to feed several times a day , but if you can feed twice or three times a day this will be appreciated by your fish . |
| 14 | ( Our big fish man Andy Parkes tells me he prefers the name Oddballs for the fish he keeps — he feels a tank buster is a fish that ‘ has to be turned round several times a day ’ — which sums up how I feel ) . |
| 15 | It is better to feed your fish several times a day with small amounts than one huge feed per day . |
| 16 | Homoeopathic potencies are therefore quite different from conventional drugs which have to be administered daily , and possibly several times a day , over a period of weeks or longer . |
| 17 | Just as each human-being should bathe regularly , so the temple idol , if it is constructed of metal or stone , is bathed daily , several times a day or once a week . |
| 18 | By now Kelly needed extensive physiotheraphy several times a day to rid her of the excess mucus that clogged her lungs . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw him several times a day and he asked about my baby 's father . |
| 20 | In fact it puts on this performance several times a day . |
| 21 | Their main advantage comes when crampons must be put on and taken off several times a day — more of an alpine situation than a Scottish winter one . |
| 22 | A courtesy bus operates between the two several times a day . |
| 23 | Several times a day |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | The most frequent visitor is the ice-cream van announcing itself several times a day with chords from " It 's Now or Never " or " Happy Days Are Here Again " . |
| 26 | She pestered the appropriate officer , several times a day over a period of three weeks . |
| 27 | What would happen is that the physiotherapist would actually train the mother to do it , she would show her what exercises need to be done and they have to be done almost constantly , several times a day and whenever there 's a spare moment , so therefore it 's not feasible for it to be done in a hospital is it ? |
| 28 | The car ferry runs several times a day . |
| 29 | Endeavouring to be what she imagined was his ideal , she altered her demeanour several times a day . |
| 30 | In fact , while an oil cargo could be sold and resold several times a day under the right market conditions , very few North Atlantic or Baltic general cargo shipments are sold on the water . |