Example sentences of "[conj] [det] time a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | preparing food and drinks : 53 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 2 | clearing away , washing up : 42 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 3 | assisting with medication : 39 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 4 | dressing and undressing : 33 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 5 | When the fly is in the air , these organs which are jointed to the thorax in the same way as wings , oscillate up and down a hundred or more times a second . |
| 6 | Editor had already received the class winner 's trophy in the section for newspapers published 10 or more times a year when TV and Radio personality Barry Took opened a sealed envelope to reveal the evening 's top award . |
| 7 | ( 1982 ) found that one-third of normal 3-year-olds still wet the bed three or more times a week . |
| 8 | It has 353 rooms , and many of the guests repeat visits every year or several times a year , some for over twenty years and more . |
| 9 | For things they want daily or several times a week they go to the local village , or in a town they go to the local suburban shops , or the ‘ corner ’ shop . |
| 10 | It should be noted that each time a module is transferred from LIFESPAN , it is copied to the account from which LIFESPAN is currently being accessed . |
| 11 | It should be noted that each time a module is transferred from LIFESPAN , it is copied to the directory from which LIFESPAN is currently being accessed . |
| 12 | It follows , of course , that each time a gun is laid down it must first be broken and unloaded . |
| 13 | ‘ ( The European Parliament ) … considers that , in the absence of palliative care correctly provided at both psychological and medical level , each time a fully conscious patient insistently and repeatedly requests an end to an existence which has for him been robbed of all dignity , and each time a team of doctors created for that purpose , established the impossibility of providing further specific care , the request should be satisfied without thereby involving any breach of respect for human life . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't know what you 're talking about , ’ said Julius , and this time a warning note of a very different kind sounded in his voice . |
| 15 | In Herefordshire he was a JP and several times a commissioner to investigate disturbances , while at court he was entrusted , among other responsibilities , with a number of diplomatic missions . |
| 16 | In addition to his school life and his theatrical life and his special coaching of the boys , he would play the organ in church ( not chapel : he was an Anglican ) and several times a week work with his boys in the Air Training Corps which he turned into one of the finest in the principality , often called on for show parades . |
| 17 | Ormonde duly did so , but this time a storm drove him back to France , and he got into St Malo just as an English squadron arrived to blockade it . |
| 18 | Fourth , decisions are made in sequence rather than according to a grand plan , because the series of searches crucially affects outcomes and because each time a search is concluded another problem is attended to . |