Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This island seems overrun with small black pigs ( animals so much a part of Tongan life that when Captain Cook presented a pair of hitherto unknown Guernsey cows to the King they were classified as ‘ Cook 's pigs ’ , and the name has stuck for cows ever since ) , and with Australian cruising ‘ yachties ’ who use the Niuas ( as Schouten and LeMaire once did ) as the formal port of entry to the kingdom . |
| 2 | These have much smaller corallites usually only a millimetre or two across , and the septa typical of rugose corals are absent or inconspicuous . |
| 3 | I go out to the shops about once a week , just to get absolute essentials . |
| 4 | And they have parties about once a fortnight and well |
| 5 | Fruit and vegetables act as anti-oxidants which explains why those in the south of France have similar cholesterol levels to Scots yet only a quarter of the heart disease . |
| 6 | In the wild they are found in shoals so ideally a group of four or five individuals at least should be kept together . |
| 7 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 8 | Many owners prefer to feed adult dogs just once a day , but in fact , it may be better to offer food morning and evening , in smaller amounts . |
| 9 | To which the cynically-minded might reply that while it 's certainly fair for Fender to give inferior , rip-off copies of their guitars as hard a time as possible , did Leo design G&L instruments , or did n't he ? |
| 10 | Two years ago tomorrow a family of four died when a driver fell asleep on the A420 and collided with them . |
| 11 | Use it twice a week for 60 days then once a week to get nails into peak condition . |
| 12 | Be truthful Maggie — is 29 years too wide a gap to bridge ? |
| 13 | Is three years too long a time , particularly for males in their 40s ? |
| 14 | At the moment , Sberbank 's 77 regional banks telegraph in their loan positions only once a month , says Anatoly Barabash , Sberbank 's new financial controller . |
| 15 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |
| 16 | The Murphy 's Cup , a small-scale affair this season at St Pierre , Chepstow , next year becomes a full European Tour event at Fulford , York , while it is likely that the fourth event will have as one of its entrants no less a player than Jack Nicklaus . |
| 17 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 18 | We 'd have fresh vegetables about twice a week and fresh fruit not very often . |
| 19 | Thus John V of Portugal ( 1706–50 ) gave public audiences regularly twice a week at which he personally received petitions for the redress of grievances . |
| 20 | Most of Frank Jordan 's 24 horses are fast ground specialists and his First Crack , successful at Wolverhampton by seven lengths just over a week ago , can make a winning reappearance in the Henley Hall Gold Challenge Cup Handicap Hurdle . |
| 21 | Mr Lawson 's speech to a City banquet at the Mansion House next week is seen as one occasion on which new policies -possibly even a step towards full EMS membership — could be outlined . |
| 22 | Yes , there 's the er sweat rag as you call it being tossed from DeFreitas to Lawrence who , as he dries his hands rather like a towel . |
| 23 | ‘ Some people will move their bowels every day , others only once a week … just do what comes naturally . ’ |
| 24 | The recycling scheme is run by the non-profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company which was set up by a group of plastic cup manufacturers and a number of companies in the UK vending and foodservice industries just over a year ago . |
| 25 | Julie first came into contact with the power of crystals just over a year ago , when she happened to visit a psychic fair . |
| 26 | Some of us do it every day , others just once a week . |
| 27 | It took the jury of seven men and seven women just over an hour to find the charge not proven against both accused by a majority . |
| 28 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 29 | Washing tip : clean jeans only once a year — without soap |
| 30 | HALF the country 's birth control clinics open their doors just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a major survey shows today . |