Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Andy Saville broke his arm after signing two weeks ago a lot of people thought we would give up , but we pushed the boat out and bought John Thomas . |
| 2 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 3 | In the US , thanks to an agreement that major distributors would give eight films annually a full circuit release , pictures such as The 49th Parallel , Target for Tonight and In Which We Serve had done remarkable business . |
| 4 | Suzanne , my wife , who had just had a baby , drove three hours twice a day to see me . |
| 5 | Swim ten lengths twice a week . |
| 6 | they 've still got eighteen hours overtime a week |
| 7 | I swim thirty lengths twice a week . |
| 8 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 9 | Certainly as far as we 're concerned at Traidcraft , when we started eight years ago a packet of coffee was two pound twenty five . |
| 10 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 11 | With it has sprung a variety of names and product descriptions with some of the more common being ‘ germicidal detergent ’ ; ‘ detergent sanitiser ’ ; ‘ detergent sterilant ’ and the simple ‘ sterilant ’ These titles and any combination thereof all mean one thing namely a sanitiser . |
| 12 | It took two people quite a time to take the big sheets down one by one , flap and fold them , holding the corners tight . |
| 13 | But no one who thought so would treat the suggestion as an argument that the king can now , as the rules stand , move two steps once a game . |
| 14 | Oldest competitor was full time astrologer Gerald Pitchforth , who at 91 still manages nine holes twice a week at Ferndown . |
| 15 | He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder . |
| 16 | Perhaps chess would be more exciting and interesting if the rules were changed to allow the king to move two spaces once a game . |