Example sentences of "[conj] [num] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 2 | Forty or fifty a day , three gallons of beer , drop dead one of these days — " |
| 3 | Even now , two or three a day is all she needs . |
| 4 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 5 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 6 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 7 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 8 | Three or four a day . |
| 9 | The books have been stolen at the rate of twenty or thirty a day . |
| 10 | Think about it , is it twenty or thirty a day ? |
| 11 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 12 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
| 13 | I myself spend an hour or two a day in the garden hut with my father-in-law , dismantling the baby 's cot and highchair . |
| 14 | No more than three a day and if |
| 15 | Women , who have slower moving bowels than men , could derive a few calories less than 50 a day . |
| 16 | more than four a day if you 're a working man . |
| 17 | EIGHTY-FOUR women — more than two a day — sought refuge or help with Edinburgh Women 's Aid last month . |
| 18 | That 's where you can smoke and a hundred and fifty a day ! |
| 19 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 20 | Seven and six a day |
| 21 | ‘ When we loaded the lighters we got seven and six a day , at the latter end . |
| 22 | Domestically , there are eleven shuttle flights a day to London Heathrow and six a day to London Gatwick , plus daily services of varying frequencies to Belfast , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Aberdeen and Newcastle . |
| 23 | Even at the start of the daily stage , apart from the exceptions noted , it was rare to find anyone using more than one or two ‘ bags ’ a day , that is , a habit of between 5 and 10 a day . |
| 24 | Then make up a minimum of 650 calories ( more , if you are allowing yourself between 1,000 and 1,500 a day ) from Fibre-Filler ( see page 65 ) and the meals on the F-Plan menus . |
| 25 | Whatever shamefaced and boyish confessions he might make to his patients , he controlled his smoking , rationing himself to between ten and fifteen a day . |
| 26 | The proposed conditions include limiting the number of aerotows — launches using a powered tug aircraft — to 50 a day on Sundays and 60 a day on other days , up to a maximum of 2,000 a year . |
| 27 | For instance , as long as you average 8,750 calories a week you will shed weight just as quickly by having as many as 1,870 a day on Saturdays and Sundays , and only 1,000 each weekday , as you would by counting precisely 1,250 calories a day for all seven days of the week . |