Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] every few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 2 | I 'm watching a silent T.V. The flickering light from the screen changes the mood of the dark room every few seconds , but I 'm impervious to mood . |
| 3 | There must , he thought , be thousands of these small attendants , waiters , scullions , masons , miners , mechanics and general helpers and dogsbodies in the place and around it ; he knew something about provisioning and logistics , and the castle 's kitchens could have provided ten-course meals every few hours for an army of tens of thousands . |
| 4 | But then he 's been burning gold every few days for ten years . |
| 5 | Israel 's safety depends more on winning a stable Middle east peace than on wiping out the Iraqi dictator 's nuclear plants every few years |
| 6 | Sufficient of these were at night for there to be , on average , one movement every few minutes . |
| 7 | It is not a bad idea to change one agency every few years . |
| 8 | … having myself graduated in Business over 40 years ago , there seems to be a remarkable cycle in which we return to particular models every few decades . |
| 9 | I it 's a big upheaval every few years is n't it |
| 10 | This entails starting early and topping up with repeat spraying on the young growth every few days . |
| 11 | Females do that , dump their dead skin every few months and start again . ’ |
| 12 | In a typical Strombolian eruption , basaltic lava is again involved , but it is not quite as fluid as in the Hawaiian eruptions and gas escape takes place spasmodically in minor explosions every few minutes or so , sometimes rhythmically and predictably , sometimes irregularly . |