Example sentences of "[adj] an [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new channel will be obliged , at the start , to offer only half an hour a day of news and only an hour a week of current affairs . |
| 2 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 3 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 4 | Exercises that accomplish this are swimming , short-term jogging ( about half an hour a day ) and skipping . |
| 5 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
| 6 | ‘ Coping with Anxiety ’ helps anxiety sufferers to understand their condition and explains how they can get relief from their day to day worries with techniques which include allocating half an hour a day ‘ worry-time ’ and by using a combination of relaxation , breathing exercises and management of thoughts and actions . |
| 7 | Baron Frankenstein stands in his laboratory quaking with anticipation ; in half an hour a lightning bolt will streak from the skies bringing life to the thing that lies on the slab . |
| 8 | After about half an hour a girl came out of the gate , her tartan shawl held round her with rough , reddened hands . |
| 9 | Some classes gave as little as half an hour a week to science and , on average , it took only 5 per cent of the timetable . |
| 10 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 11 | You want some spot checks , half an hour a week to go and do some spot checks on that . |
| 12 | Within half an hour a crowd of pilgrims had gathered outside the hotel . |
| 13 | There are about 100,000 hairs on the scalp — blondes have least , brunettes most — and hair grows about half an inch a month . |
| 14 | In order to make such an extraction a message must be conveyed . |