Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that all these concerns about pedigree matter a damn as far as the music is concerned — it 's jus tot give your ears a clue as to what to expect . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’ |
| 3 | You may be doing your readers a favour but you will never be invited on a freebie again . |
| 4 | Bringing a group of patients together is a useful way of getting patients currently content with one injection a day to enquire why they are not having two injections a day as are the other patients they have met . |
| 5 | If you snack between meals ( and most people do ! ) try to limit this to one or two snacks a day if you are trying to lose weight . |
| 6 | Advances in , for instance , the production of 64K RAMs ( memory chips that can hold around 64000 bits of information ) give Japanese manufacturers a versatility and efficiency which has made it possible for them to achieve so much in the past few years . |
| 7 | I 'd show the kids a thing or two . |
| 8 | The ‘ LIFE ’ centre will initially open for one or two sessions a week and gradually increase as more counsellors complete their training . |
| 9 | These organisations ( along with Scottish Opera ) have lifted the taint of ‘ provincialism ’ from the popular notion of the quality of opera in the regions and taught their big London brothers a thing or two about the imaginative use of limited resources , the building of new audiences , and the ways of making opera without ‘ great ’ voices in a theatrically potent and exciting experience . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll maybe write ten songs a year if I 'm lucky . |
| 11 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 12 | Universalism tends to guarantee all districts a project and reciprocity allows the recognition that different districts will have different project priorities . |
| 13 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 14 | For example , a hot body should radiate the same amount of energy in waves with frequencies between one and two million million waves a second as in waves with frequencies between two and three million million waves a second . |
| 15 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 16 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 17 | She could see in Mary 's eyes a gleam that meant she was calculating , not what she might owe to Alice , but what she was accumulating , of course at the moment only in imagination , for the purchase of their flat , or house . |
| 18 | The problem is that there are 75 ridings a year and to give a wider berth would concentrate our low flying over other parts of the countryside to the detriment of the inhabitants there . |
| 19 | I decided to give your diagnostic utilities a try and was shocked to be told that it has a 386 processor with a 34.5 performance factor . |
| 20 | She had three or four tantrums a day and was generally very volatile in her emotional state . |
| 21 | There are four distributions a year and these payments also include substantial royalties received by the PRS from equivalent foreign societies for the performance of PRS members ' music overseas . |
| 22 | Lee built a fair side for Newcastle — but he did n't want Supermac in it , even though he scored 25 goals a season and was a hero to the fans . |
| 23 | The Westborough , Massachusetts-based firm claimed a lead in the commercial Unix marketplace with its quad-processor Motorola Inc 88100 RISC units a year or so ago ( UX No 325 ) . |
| 24 | Axil , which introduced other Sparc compatibles earlier on , says in has been shipping hundreds of units a month and is on the verge of moving to a thousand . |
| 25 | Medical advice is that men who drink more than 21 units a week and women who drink more than 14 units could damage their health . |
| 26 | Men should drink no more than 21 units a week and women no more than 14 . |
| 27 | We make 200,000 cars a year and export 70,000 of them so there 's not much left for the home market and people have to apply one year in advance to buy one . |
| 28 | Now the company is making more than 200,000 lollies a week and staff have been placed on overtime to cope with extra demand . |
| 29 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 30 | We had two performances a night and a Saturday matinée as well … |