Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | So why d' ya get two high tides a day . |
| 2 | She felt she could not give up totally , but settled for three or four slim cigars a day instead of ten to fifteen cigarettes . |
| 3 | She was a whore fetched from Brussels and paid ten English guineas a day to bed the Prince , and in her opinion she earned every ounce of the precious gold . |
| 4 | ‘ That fellow do have forty different diseases a day lately , ’ Phil said . |
| 5 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 6 | Among consumers of both products the risk of these cancers was increased more than 35-fold among those who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day and took more than four alcoholic drinks a day . |
| 7 | Production from the newly-named Armada complex is due to start in late 1996 with peak output of about 300m cubic feet a day of gas condensate — a mixture of gas and light oil — from the Maggie and Howard field , and two other discoveries , Drake and Hawkins . |
| 8 | Armada is about a fifth of the size of the company 's biggest asset , the Morecambe field , which has a potential production capacity of 1.8 billion cubic feet a day . |
| 9 | The Corporation wished to meet the shortfall by 1 billion cubic feet a day from the Norwegian Sleipner field . |
| 10 | Some of the individual wells are capable of flowing more than 90 million cubic feet a day , and total production should be up to 245 million cubic feet a day by the time the field hits its peak next summer . |
| 11 | Some of the individual wells are capable of flowing more than 90 million cubic feet a day , and total production should be up to 245 million cubic feet a day by the time the field hits its peak next summer . |
| 12 | The well tested at 69 million standard cubic feet a day — double the previous best from a fracced vertical well in the field and 10 times that achieved by a non-fracced vertical well . |
| 13 | The AA says fourteen thousand extra drivers a day will be using the existing motorway and its link roads by 1991 . |
| 14 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 15 | Yes , a Portakabin from which you would have to produce three cooked meals a day for roughly 2,000 people , including a turkey dinner with all the trimmings . |
| 16 | Birmingham Open Christmas provides three cooked meals a day over a four-day period , including a daily roast . |
| 17 | Er , do you get any cooked meals a day ? |
| 18 | Mounsey , who is married to a Thai girl , will be joined in a top security prison by another Briton who appeared in court on similar charges a day after him . |
| 19 | *It is only in the last 15 years that the accumulated evidence has been strong enough to conclude that the regular consumption of up to four standard drinks a day may reduce the risk of coronary disease by as much as 50 per cent . ’ |
| 20 | Even so , by the end of April 20,000 Kurdish refugees a day were returning to havens set up in northern Iraq by Western troops — not without some hesitation , as when Kurdish peshmerga declared the haven at Zakho unsafe because there were still Iraqi police in the town . |
| 21 | Blumler shows that , since televising , the main news programmes have included an average of about 2.6 parliamentary stories a day , and that on half of these days one of these has been the lead story . |
| 22 | And of course , three balanced meals a day are what most of us are aiming at . |
| 23 | To aim towards eating three regular balanced meals a day |
| 24 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |
| 25 | We had both come to hate it and its invisible driver , whom we visualized as a smug glutton sleeping in a comfortable bed each night and stuffing his face with three square meals a day . |
| 26 | Children should have three square meals a day . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In fact , you 'll soon find out that three square meals a day is hardly scratching the surface — most kids seem to have an ever-open stomach . ’ |
| 28 | Three square meals a day , ai n't there ? |
| 29 | ‘ You slaved for her with six or eight hours of technical studies a day besides practising … |
| 30 | It has been in operation since last month , giving advice to around six established small and medium-sized businesses a day . |