Example sentences of "one a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches , one a ‘ dummy ’ , so that everyone can say , ‘ it was n't me who actually killed him ’ . |
| 2 | Will Clark , the Giants first baseman who narrowly missed the 1989 batting championship with an average of .333 , drove in six runs with two homers - one a grand slam — as San Francisco routed the Cubs 11-3 in the first game of the best-of-seven National League championship series at Wrigley Field . |
| 3 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 4 | Then at least two programme trades , one a buy and sell mix and the other a buy exercise , steadied the market . |
| 5 | The following is an extract from the field notes , describing the return from court of two policemen , one a relatively inexperienced recruit . |
| 6 | ‘ If I were to go to only one meeting a year for each of them , it would still be more than one a week , ’ he confesses , admitting that it is one of his greatest weaknesses . |
| 7 | And , as you descend steeply into the next valley , and round the Norman church , a line of eight gargoyles — one a benign lion , one a madman in mid-vomit , one a splendid , arrogant griffon . |
| 8 | continued from page one a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 9 | On January 21st allied forces destroyed some Iraqi anti-aircraft batteries operating from oil rigs in the northern Gulf ; the next day American aircraft sank two Iraqi ships , one a minelayer . |
| 10 | Paisley , John Wylie , and Ivan Foster , with two others , one a Protestant Action Councillor and the other a staunch old loyalist lady from the Shankill Road , were charged with public order offences . |
| 11 | Worse than that , in a way , was the butter one a while back . |
| 12 | There were three altars , one a submarine green . |
| 13 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 14 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 15 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 16 | At a rate of more than one a year , Britain was to get 15 Pressurised Water Reactors . |
| 17 | Out of sixteen instances , four were shopkeepers , one a hotel proprietor , one in insurance , and four were farmers ; and nearly all provided either houses — in one case paying for the maids , coal , and gas as well — or land . |
| 18 | Nearby are two more chapels , one a copy of the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre ( 1845 ) by Johann Ferdinand Schorr and the other , to the left of the church , containing a Calvary . |
| 19 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 20 | Perhaps one a week when you are on afternoons . |
| 21 | In the past 10 years , the average number of kidney transplants in Japan has risen from less than one a week to about one every day . |
| 22 | There were ten people on the trip and two guides , one a girl of 31 , Kaz , and Edward who was 22 . |
| 23 | In the post 1987 era this logic has underscored urban policy interventions which incorporate two key themes , one a straightforward exercise in symbolic amelioration and social control of racial injustice , the other the manipulation of the raw social context by which the Thatcherite ideology of privatism can be extended in housing , education and local government finance through the particular representation of contemporary urban life that the term inner city evokes . |
| 24 | The state of the art — II : One a month |
| 25 | One by one a pin was stuck in the origin of each call . |
| 26 | A WOMAN and her two children , one a baby , died when their car and a van collided head-on and burst into flames yesterday . |
| 27 | Her father , as anxious as Hoskins to possess a memento of the child , executed two stoneware portraits , one a figurine of a small bare-footed child in a loose calf-length shift walking towards the New Horizon , the other a naturalistic representation of the little girl dressed for her coffin ( Col. 5 ) . |
| 28 | Hoccleve was a scribe by profession , and was therefore able to write his own confession , but the difficulty in considering the case of Margery Kempe is that she was illiterate , and dictated her account of her life to two different scribes , one a poor writer and the other a priest . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Iris II N195 had been converted to a Mk IV by having three 800hp Armstrong Siddeley Leopard radials fitted , the two outer as tractors and the centre one a pusher . |
| 30 | It is backed by opinions from two barristers — one a QC — calling on Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke to refer the case to the Court of Appeal . |