Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] days a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Question : Which piece of equipment works for you for 365 days a year , 24 hours a day , saves you money , protects your reputation , helps you comply with the law , and is expected to function without complaint for up to 10 years ? |
| 2 | Britain needs fewer but brighter racecourses , each with a range of facilities that will attract customers for 300 days a year , not 10 . |
| 3 | Large families eke out an existence for six days a week on a few loaves and margarine . |
| 4 | Suppose , then , that you can allow the equivalent of four hours each evening for six days a week . |
| 5 | High Row , Skinnergate , Blackwellgate , Bondgate and the eastern end of Duke Street will be closed to traffic for six days a week between 10.30am and 4pm , although buses and pedal cycles may still use Blackwellgate and Bondgate . |
| 6 | They also hope to develop some kind of a synchronised timetable to provide five or six ships sailing at least every hour for 364 days a year . |
| 7 | Such measures are thought to make it possible to eliminate through traffic from Greatham apart from a maximum of six days a year the MoD would still require the closure of Woolmer Road . |
| 8 | Have fresh fruit or sugar-free yogurt for dessert a minimum of three days a week ; the other days have low-sugar or no-sugar dessert recipes whenever possible ( e.g. unless eating out or at a friend 's house ) . |
| 9 | He was Con Fenton , a retired farm worker who did a bit of jobbing gardening and spent an average of three days a week at The Laurels . |
| 10 | But more in , but what it was we when I was in here , sort of five days a week , nine to five job |
| 11 | At Great Dun Fell in Cumbria , which is under cloud for part of 250 days a year , cloud is on average four times as acid as rain at the same spot , with more than twice the ammonium , nitrate and sulphur . |
| 12 | We will require employers to release their employees aged under 19 for a minimum of two days a week further education and/or training for nationally recognised qualifications . |
| 13 | With ‘ good head office staff , I 've been able to spend upwards of two days a week out in the service and if you keep that up it 's amazing how many places you will have been over the years and we now have a much more open relationship ’ . |
| 14 | And then , and that , that may solve all sorts of problems for you , if you were going to do that sort of seven days a week , let's say from seven in the morning until , I do n't know , nine at nigh , at night or something . |
| 15 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 16 | She negotiated with Henry and the Residential Centre and fixed up for him to attend the scheme for three days a week . |
| 17 | Moreover , the government had earlier proposed that Parliament should sit for three days a week , instead of five . |
| 18 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 19 | ‘ If a bed is in 365 days a year use , it could last for three years or maybe more , ’ says John Mott of supplier Airsprung Furniture . |
| 20 | Simply by filling in a form giving a few details such as variety of wheat to be grown , date of planting and previous cropping in the field , Davies and his colleagues can , with the addition of weather data fed in 365 days a year from 45 centres around the country , predict with unerring accuracy exactly when the farmer should spread his ‘ Nitram ’ to get the best results . |
| 21 | The UN Security Council on Oct. 6 voted unanimously to create within 30 days a war crimes commission to examine evidence of " grave breaches of international humanitarian law " in former Yugoslavia ( although it made no provision for further action ) . |
| 22 | And and like the dry store , erm , with all , it 's got like the rice in it , the custard in it , all those sorts of things , I mean , you know , he might order that stuff once a week , rather than having it come in three days a week . |
| 23 | The text of the resolution was forwarded to Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis , accompanied by a telegram from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev demanding within three days a report on measures to implement the Congress decisions . |
| 24 | In those days a mill was sold on the basis of good wind and being near the top of a hill . |
| 25 | Altogether different was Vivian Bowden , now Lord Bowden of Chesterfield , in those days a man of frenetic and driving energy . |
| 26 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 27 | In those days a man would run in about half past eleven at night and he could very well be on an early shift the next day . |
| 28 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 29 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 30 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |