Example sentences of "[noun sg] every few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ninagawa stops the action every few minutes to make tiny adjustments . |
| 2 | His presence in the pitch darkness was marked only by the dull glow of a cigarette , its red tip pulsing into light every few moments to reveal the black pencil of the Colonel 's moustache as he sat , immobile behind his desk , reflecting on the previous day 's visitor . |
| 3 | The government blamed the drought on El Niño , the warm ocean current which , sweeping in near the Pacific coast every few years , caused wide fluctuations in the local weather . |
| 4 | If the launch seems slow , check the speed every few seconds . |
| 5 | The man of the house told us that he had to repaint his boat every few weeks as the chemicals stripped it back to bare wood.And his wife complained of burns all up one arm from washing her clothes in contaminated water . |
| 6 | Kitty moved from hut to hut every few years . |
| 7 | A perk of the office is to be invited to lunch with the Queen every few years . |
| 8 | Standard national and international codes exist for many of these but are subject to revision every few years . |
| 9 | In addition , checks by waste disposal authorities are almost impossible to effect , owing to the fact that lorry loads of waste arrive on site every few minutes , are dumped and the tip is covered over at the end of the day . |
| 10 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 11 | I 'm watching a silent T.V. The flickering light from the screen changes the mood of the dark room every few seconds , but I 'm impervious to mood . |
| 12 | In the dry season , groups of families travel out into the forest , moving camp every few days and living off wild foods , thus more uniformly exploiting the environment at a time of scarcity and the risk of irreversible depletion of the local forest . |
| 13 | As you should change the soil in the wormery every few weeks , this is the time to search through the soil for egg capsules . |
| 14 | Females do that , dump their dead skin every few months and start again . ’ |
| 15 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
| 16 | A knife-point poked into his back every few seconds , so he knew that the mestizo was close behind him . |
| 17 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 18 | Penry 's been on the phone every few minutes to see if you 've arrived . |
| 19 | He crossed to his drinks cabinet and poured himself another large measure of whisky , glancing at the phone every few seconds as if willing it to ring . |
| 20 | Sufficient of these were at night for there to be , on average , one movement every few minutes . |
| 21 | If you get out of position and if you find yourself too low , move up slowly in small steps , checking the movement every few feet . |
| 22 | publish a new edition at appropriate intervals , for example every few years . |
| 23 | Your best bet is to feed a leaf or two of blanched lettuce or spinach every few days and let them browse on it . |
| 24 | I it 's a big upheaval every few years is n't it |
| 25 | It approaches Rome , lumbering up the Appian Way , doubling its size every few minutes . |
| 26 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 27 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 28 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 29 | There he sat at home on his Oxfordshire farm every few months , behaving like a one-man Greek chorus , informing us ( he had every intention even then of publishing well short of the thirty-year limit ) of the vicissitudes of the British Constitution . |
| 30 | This entails starting early and topping up with repeat spraying on the young growth every few days . |