Example sentences of "[adj] one [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Odd survivors burned like overhead beacons ; there was one under the bridge just ahead , and another one about a hundred yards beyond .
2 If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences .
3 He he 's on the second one quite a bit .
4 Well my brother was with went with that one once a boy As a boy .
5 ‘ Ask him the password , ’ a young woman said , with coral and amber beads jangling round her neck and hair like the plaited mane of a black , Arab stallion , ‘ the riddle-me-ree one only a Romany knows . ’
6 Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year .
7 the winning mole then shot off leaving the other one apparently a little dazed .
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