Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] every few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 2 | For the past 20 years he has sent out a nature news sheet every few weeks , detailing his observations of birds , butterflies and flowers , illustrated with his own hand coloured drawings . |
| 3 | The government blamed the drought on El Niño , the warm ocean current which , sweeping in near the Pacific coast every few years , caused wide fluctuations in the local weather . |
| 4 | There he sat at home on his Oxfordshire farm every few months , behaving like a one-man Greek chorus , informing us ( he had every intention even then of publishing well short of the thirty-year limit ) of the vicissitudes of the British Constitution . |
| 5 | Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes . |