Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother . |
| 2 | Students will need to discipline themselves to keep a record , in a loose leaf binder , on a very regular basis eg. weekly or at the longest once a fortnight . |
| 3 | As the mother of two small children , the youngest hardly a month old , her eventual decision to remain at Stowey was clearly sensible . |
| 4 | If — as happens too often — the new methods are even more inconvenient than the old then a change-over is difficult , because to the basic inconvenience of the new pattern must be added the inconvenience of learning it . |
| 5 | Devlin scored the second after a number of scrums , free kicks and penalties all close to the line , and in injury time John Paul Speirs touched down to ensure victory . |
| 6 | Dr. Rao saw the deceased twice a week . |
| 7 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 8 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
| 9 | Four Moscow-based distributors include ArguSoft and 4i Datost — the latter also a Computervision reseller with a second outlet in Kiev , Ukraine . |
| 10 | Four Moscow-based distributors include ArguSoft and 4i Datost — the latter also a ComputerVision reseller with a second outlet in Kiev , Ukraine . |
| 11 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 12 | ‘ Still , I suppose to the uneducated even a degree in Liberal Arts is impressive . ’ |
| 13 | Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill . |
| 14 | There are currently two options available on the market , one of which is a truly functional brace and the other merely a support . |
| 15 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 16 | As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials . |
| 17 | In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances . |
| 18 | Unemployment , now a major problem , was in the mid-seventies only a threat ; privatisation was not an issue ; government attacks on the trade union movement were a thing of the future . |
| 19 | What do you feel you know the fact that that that quite a lot of erm well you were saying e you saying that quite a few quite a lot more coloured people live here |
| 20 | Mr Cormack , however , shows that nearly half the Roman Catholic students entering higher education here ( 43pc ) come from working class homes , but only a little over a quarter of the Protestants do ( 27pc ) . |
| 21 | Therefore , despite the fact that a little over a year had passed since the Report had been received , he suggested that the interval between publication and the debate was not a matter for regret . |
| 22 | A deadlock can only be opened with a key so a thief can not smash a pane of glass and open the door ; or if he gets in through a window , he ca n't carry your property out through the door . |
| 23 | Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards . |
| 24 | The village possessed a charter to hold a fair twice a year , on 10th July and 2nd October , and a market was held every week in the Market Place , near to the cross , until Driffield developed to become the principal market town in the area , after which it was transferred there . |
| 25 | It 's no longer merely a handful of advocates who wonder why someone with such high-calibre material has n't made a bigger dent in the global public 's consciousness . |
| 26 | This does n't mean to say that that we ca n't invite other people to a special once a year meeting of this transportation working party to deal with cycle issues . |