Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miron Straf , the director of the Committee on National Statistics in Washington , which monitors and reviews US government statistics , is to be invited to address the Royal Statistical Society ( RSS ) on how his organisation operates and how a similar group could be established in Britain . |
| 2 | But the actual letter survives and only a mind predisposed to suspect the sender could think it pompous : ‘ After the most careful consideration I have decided , if you are willing that I should do so , to recommend your name for the succession to the see of Durham . ’ |
| 3 | Communion comes but twice a year for some |
| 4 | It 's not every house that has antique vases thirty feet up a wall to dust … fortunately even at Claydon House the problem comes but once a year . |
| 5 | Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end . |
| 6 | You 'll learn all I can tell you when the time comes and not a moment sooner . |
| 7 | ‘ Christmas comes but once a year . ’ |
| 8 | As Italians and many others would agree , fortunately for the figure Christmas comes but once a year ! |