Example sentences of "[verb] on [num] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also surprised at a later date to find on one occasion an abstract in Minton 's studio . |
| 2 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 3 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 4 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 5 | They represent acceptable exposure levels based on eight hours a day for five days a week . |
| 6 | It cites an annual saving of £600 a year on the Peugot 309 1.9-litre diesel compared with the initially cheaper 1.6-litre petrol version , based on 12,000 miles a year . |
| 7 | Bigger brother Waterstones ( although only marginally so — 8,400 sq ft , 25 full time , 16 full time equivalents ) also opens on seven days a week , and occupies the ground floor and basement of one of Glasgow 's most attractive buildings , so Venetian in character that it is known as the Ca' d'Oro . |
| 8 | Drinking — and not training weekends — meant my weight stuck on 12 stones ; trying to race on 20 miles a week , plus the drinking , was not on . ’ |
| 9 | I wer I started on ten shillings a week there , down there , at er fourteen . |
| 10 | Under the heading of coarse fishing there are different types of fishing which concentrate on one species an example of this is Carp fishing . |
| 11 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 12 | If a family of , say , five could in years of normal food prices be almost supported on 4s 6d a week , then a payment of 6d or 1s , either to a single pauper or as a supplement to the earnings of a large family , was indeed significant , especially if it was combined with occasional relief payments for tools , clothing , towards rent or for medicine . |
| 13 | As announced on 11 March an unchanged final dividend of 1p per share is being recommended . |
| 14 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 15 | Though snow is observed falling on 47 days a year at Stornoway , it is lying ( at 0900 hrs ) on only 11 of these days ( 5 in the Uists ) . |
| 16 | I could get two part-time jobs — forty pounds a week — you ca n't live on forty pounds a week … |
| 17 | ‘ We had one of those social workers come round a few weeks ago — she was doing a sort of survey of old age pensioners — some idea that they could live on twenty-five shillings a week for food . |
| 18 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |
| 19 | The average wind speed at Stornoway is 14.4 knots ( 7.4m/s ) ( Birse & Robertson 1970 ) and gales are recorded on 50 days a year ( Manley 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Edward Thomas , the manager , often travelled with the train , which ran on three days a week , from 1947 , in the summer only . |
| 21 | But it only strikes on two babies a year , two babies in England |
| 22 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 23 | If you are dieting on 850 calories a day , choose meals adding up to 450 calories a day . |
| 24 | If you are dieting on 1,500 calories a day , you can choose meals adding up to 1,100 calories a day . |
| 25 | If you are dieting on 1,250 calories a day , choose meals adding up to 850 calories a day . |
| 26 | If you are dieting on 1,000 calories a day , choose meals adding up to 600 calories a day . |