Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I write this the survivors are eight days old , and being fed Brineshrimp once a day , and powdered flake or powdered High Protein once a day . |
| 2 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 3 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
| 4 | Five years ago 440,000 young people went to a pub once a day ; the number is down by 150,000 . |
| 5 | Men having intercourse once a day with an infected woman would become HIV-positive after an average of 33 months . |
| 6 | Well they they 've halved the tablet twice a day to get into the . |
| 7 | Upstairs in the Bridal Suite , where sniffer dogs do their business once a day , Jeffrey Archer sat before his telephone . |
| 8 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 9 | The guard will be on its mettle , with the king not a day away , and the sheriff alerted to expect him . |
| 10 | He watered the jars with distilled water once a day and the mushrooms appeared after about a month ‘ if you were lucky ’ . |
| 11 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 12 | The abuse rises to a crescendo twice a day , at 7.30am and 4.30pm , when double-decker buses carry the new recruits to and from work , their faces covered with balaclavas and newspapers in order to conceal their identities . |
| 13 | He had obtained the auctioneer 's catalogue only a day before the sale and the purported effect of the clause was to relieve the sellers from telling more than a part of the material facts , thereby obliging the buyer to check the remainder for himself . |
| 14 | Should n't have give him that tin , that 's why dogs are that 's why you 're instructed to feed a dog once a day or whatever it is . |
| 15 | The hard core of Copernican astronomy would be the assumptions that the earth and the planets orbit a stationary sun and that the earth spins on its axis once a day . |
| 16 | These were er in , in its infancy then and er we had a soup kitchen and er we , we got soup once a day , when we got issued with it . |
| 17 | If you do not use an object once a day , or at least once a week , it does not deserve prime storage space ( that is within easy reach and somewhere between knee and eye level ) . |
| 18 | Tabinal is used as a rinse twice a day after breakfast and dinner . |
| 19 | His upbeat message just a day after Chancellor Norman Lamont warned that full economic recovery could be three years away sparked an angry clash with Labour . |
| 20 | The way you manage to cope with all the problems that life with an elderly parent may present will depend not only upon their magnitude , or the help you receive from others , but also on your attitude towards them , and your determination to live life just a day at a time , thus breaking your stress up into smaller and more manageable ‘ sections ’ . |
| 21 | But women having sex once a day with an HIV-infected man would on average become infected within a year , the study found . |
| 22 | It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’ |
| 23 | National recommendations are clear : 60–80 mg of gentamicin twice a day , and peak concentrations should be between 3 and 5 µg/ml , not 9 µg/ml as suggested in the first case history . |
| 24 | Before I got married I used to go a church twice a day . |
| 25 | Why do I clean the kitchen floor twice a day ? |
| 26 | The first edition , dated 1796 , apparently contained the notorious instruction , in the treatment of ‘ staggers ’ , of having the ‘ hair clipped off the pasterns as high as the fetlock , and boiling water poured on the part twice a day ’ . |
| 27 | By the time he had climbed out of the valley and over the pass on a day which was fretting for a thunderstorm , he was boiling with the need to act . |
| 28 | because you see I only use it a tankful once a day when I have a bath in the morning have a bath at night as well . |
| 29 | Feed your horse a dessert spoonful of maize or soya oil once a day instead of cod liver oil . |
| 30 | Lights are on 12 hours per day , I do a 20 per cent water change fortnightly and feed frozen food once a day . |