Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences .
2 He he 's on the second one quite a bit .
3 Well my brother was with went with that one once a boy As a boy .
4 ‘ Ask him the password , ’ a young woman said , with coral and amber beads jangling round her neck and hair like the plaited mane of a black , Arab stallion , ‘ the riddle-me-ree one only a Romany knows . ’
5 Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year .
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