Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 2 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 3 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 4 | He is allowed visitors for 10 minutes once a week . |
| 5 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 6 | The total cosmid library contained about 8500 clones , a coverage of 23 , but most hybridisations were done on a sublibrary of 3000 clones ie a coverage of 8.5 . |
| 7 | They undertake a booking of a minimum of fifty seats once a week if we will give a special price . |
| 8 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 9 | This approach thus results in the specification of 27 zones about a three.dimensional primary space , with touching conditions recorded with respect to the six excursion conditions ( see Figure 2.13 ) . |
| 10 | When I did this course ( in 1988 at Lewisham College ) I went to tutorials for three hours twice a week , at which theory was taught , and we engaged in teaching exercises assessed by our peers and tutors . |
| 11 | But the couple fell out for three years following a very acrimonious split . |
| 12 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 13 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
| 14 | Part of the M1 was closed for the second time in three days following a multiple pile-up in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 15 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 16 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 17 | In one week recently a fumigation trailer and two pest control vans were stolen , a Healthcare side-loader was broken into , there was an alleged poisoning of a dog by a Rentokil product , and a threat to contaminate cans of food with a Rentokil rodenticide . |
| 18 | She does work seventeen to nineteen hours here a week and she takes her work home . |
| 19 | Current emissions of 500,000 tonnes a year would be cut to 73,000 tonnes once a modernization programme costing US$900,000,000 , funded in part by Finland , Norway and Sweden , had been carried out . |
| 20 | Some ten to fifteen years later a similar decline took place in the other area where it was prevalent , the interior of the Low Country . |
| 21 | Visits from the prisoner 's family may be limited to one half-hour twice a month , but since that may involve a 400 mile round journey even such infrequent visits may not be possible . |
| 22 | He failed to respond to increased doses of cyclosporin , up to 150 mg twice a day . |
| 23 | A meals-on-wheels service was started in Keyingham in 1963 , which still operates and serves up to 20 people twice a week . |
| 24 | Okay now we 've had this for twenty years so a lot of these have been resold of course . |
| 25 | If his average for the first X t is one greater than his average for the X plus two tests So a hundred and twenty six over X is gon na equal ? |
| 26 | Mr Steward may feel that the project is ‘ low key ’ , but when a nine acre sand and gravel pit is proposed to be worked for four years only a matter of 45 metres from the nearest residence and 280 metres from the centre of Cross Green ( Atlas Aggregate 's figures ) , the residents of Cockfield are entitled to feel differently . |
| 27 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 28 | The Black Boy though now a public house was at one time also a farm for when Robert Hearnden ran the public house in 1840 he also farmed a considerable amount of land , where the large pit is now situated and down into the village . |
| 29 | At one time only a few selected diseases were thought to have links with the sufferer 's state of mind , but now it is recognized that a whole range — from cancer to heart attack — may be brought on by worry and strain . |
| 30 | At one time quite a modest stock of components would enable you to build practically anything that came along in the electronics press , although the cost of the components would have been very high by today 's standards . |