Example sentences of "[conj] one [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The involvement of Welsh grandparents takes a different form : contact may be less frequent and based on invitations to visit or regular arrangements for contributing to childcare one day or one evening a week . |
| 2 | When she resumed her story her voice was different , flat and uninflected , as she told him that one day a journalist and a photographer had come to Chastlecombe to do a feature on the shopping arcade for the colour magazine of one of the Sunday papers . |
| 3 | It appears that one Christmas a stockbroker searching for a present went into a pet shop in the Square Mile . |
| 4 | During his period at Newcastle and later in his career when he briefly played for Grimsby Town , Gallacher was known to drink with fans in pubs near the ground , and on more than one occasion a search party had to be sent to get him in time for the kick-off . |
| 5 | and er I think they 're more affected by outside influences brainwash whatever you like to call it than one night a year of Halloween . |
| 6 | Most Chief Education Officers say they come across fewer than one case a year , thus supporting the official line that it ‘ hardly ever happens ’ . |
| 7 | Castner devised a process , involving the reduction of caustic soda with carbon , by which the cost could be reduced to less than one shilling a pound . |
| 8 | By supplementary help we refer to cases where either support worker help was provided temporarily , to relieve in unusual circumstances , or support workers were employed with a client on average no more than one hour a day , seven days a week . |
| 9 | He may meet in private with his lawyer , but access to his family is severely restricted : he can see them for no more than one hour a month , under tight surveillance . |
| 10 | Shabba Rank 's gruff growl has graced over 50 reggae single hits since 1987 , with more than one record a week often hitting the charts . |
| 11 | Since Food Giants are spreading so fast around the country — they 've opened more than one store a month since they started last year — we 've put their claims to the test . |
| 12 | And one day a lady came from the clinic . |
| 13 | The wife stops in , and one night a week she goes out with her women mates . |
| 14 | I got one evening off … and one afternoon a month ’ ( Lewis and Meredith , 1988 , p. 83 ) . |
| 15 | She sought oblivion , and one tablet a night quickly escalated to two , then three , then a couple in the morning , then four , until eventually she was taking them like sweeties . |
| 16 | See , now I deliberately sit , when I 'm out in a Land Rover , with one arm up a bit higher than the other and one leg a bit higher . |
| 17 | Of that , one night a week and one weekend a month is normally spent on call . ’ |
| 18 | It 's only two and a half thousand population and one bus a day in each direction . |
| 19 | I , I did two hundred and one pound a month or two hundred and fift okay it sounds cheap but I do n't know fourteen pound a month just for li thirty thousand pound life cover over suppose it 's the |
| 20 | Members paid a fee of one shilling a year and one penny a week for each book borrowed . |
| 21 | The resulting three-year HND in Manufacturing Technology and Management is taught at Napier , one afternoon and one evening a week . |
| 22 | erm yes it should be okay perhaps you know if obviously if one bedroom a box room would n't be any good to us but that would be consider that |
| 23 | But one day a magician accidentally spilt silver dust all over them , and they came alive . |
| 24 | But one day a girl at school invited me to her home , and we began to see more of each other , became friends . |
| 25 | But one day a row blew up . |
| 26 | But one day a visit to Glensanda on Loch Linnhe was planned . |
| 27 | The computer 's instruction set has evolved to provide the facilities required by the programmer , or to provide as one instruction a group of operations commonly found together . |
| 28 | The responses were later grouped into three categories : ( a ) never smoker — ‘ I have never smoked a cigarette , not even a puff ’ ; ( b ) tried but stopped — ‘ I have only ever tried smoking once or twice but I do n't smoke now , ’ or ‘ I used to smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke now ’ ; ( c ) current smoker — ‘ I smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke as much as one cigarette a week ’ or ‘ I usually smoke between one and six cigarettes a week , ’ or ‘ I usually smoke more than six cigarettes a week . ’ |