Example sentences of "[prep] the [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you opt for the once a week regime , apply the oils three times a day if possible , otherwise once a day is enough . |
| 2 | Taunton Cider has said it will have to run six lorries a day with a road haulage company in place of the once a week service to Scotland . |
| 3 | She told me how much more exciting Willesden was than rural Bedfordshire , despite the once a year trips to Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | It was not in the least a literary feeling , but an intensely mysterious present and concrete feeling of excitement , of being in a situation where anything still might happen . |
| 5 | You 're not in the least a suiable candidate . ’ |
| 6 | Ah shit , says Brad , the repulsive orderly , there 's nothing wrong with them — meaning the women in the shelter-that a good six inches wo n't cure . |
| 7 | They 've trained in addition to the once a month or even twice a month , they 've trained whenever their duties allowed . |
| 8 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 9 | He had expected a butler or some obsequious manservant , at the least a maid or companion , to welcome them into a room shining with silver and silk carpets . |
| 10 | It was possible for a middle-class reader to sympathise with a girl , even if she were a countess , when she entered upon the search for an ancient royal treasure in a thoroughly youthful way , or with a boy who , even if he were a king or at the least a count in eclipse , faced danger and responsibility with the doubts and the dutiful idealism of a public-school upbringing . |
| 11 | We have horses , so fruit trees were obviously omitted , as were many of the most beautiful species such as beech and oak ( beech mast and oak apples can be poisonous or at the least a cause of colic ) , chestnut trees were crossed off because of the conker collecting problem — small boys of all ages are very determined that nothing in the way of fencing should stop them finding conkers . |
| 12 | If non-basic beliefs such as these can reduce the justification of basic beliefs , they can presumably also increase it , and in this case there would be the possibility that although our beliefs about our sensory states are always partially justified just because of their subject matter , they are never completely or satisfactorily justified unless there is confirming or at the least a lack of disconfirming evidence at the non-basic level . |
| 13 | There is , of course , nothing novel in the idea that commercial and political power go hand in hand , but the sheer volume and importance of fur as the preponderating commodity on the mediaeval international market suggests that a monopoly in its procurement , sale and supply was , if not exactly a sine qua non , then at the least a decisive factor in the political hegemony of Muscovy . |
| 14 | In a case of recognition an identification parade would often be pointless but in the present case an identification parade or at the least a controlled confrontation should have been held . |
| 15 | But if we provide readers with amusement when things are glum we are performing at the least a useful service . |
| 16 | A lasting cellular change in output in response to a defined input is at the least a dramatic example of neural plasticity ; but even more than this , the very specific form that the response takes could be regarded as a form of memory . |
| 17 | The need for further study of this confused period is clearly indicated , but the statements of Ibn Hajar ( and al-Makrizi ) and of the earliest chronological list and the document indicating Molla Fenari 's presence in Karaman in Jumada II 819/August 1416 provide at the least a consistent basis for explaining the reason for , and establishing the date of , Molla Fenari 's return ; and it may therefore be tentatively concluded that Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands some time in , or shortly alter , Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 . |