Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [num] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | less than one a year after . |
| 2 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 3 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 4 | In the past 10 years , the average number of kidney transplants in Japan has risen from less than one a week to about one every day . |
| 5 | Women , who have slower moving bowels than men , could derive a few calories less than 50 a day . |
| 6 | ‘ Under the new legislation , if the amount of VAT that a business incurs in relation to selling nonvatable items is less than 7,200 a year , then all the money can be reclaimed . |
| 7 | And predators may be hesitating longer than i the past , over due diligence studies . |
| 8 | The reduction in output of volatile organic compounds ( VOCs ) coupled with a three-year community relations programme , has led to a drop in protests about solvent smells from the plant from more than 100 a year to one . |
| 9 | At one point more than 100 an hour were entering the embassy . |
| 10 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 11 | At a rate of more than one a year , Britain was to get 15 Pressurised Water Reactors . |
| 12 | According to the Congregation for the Cause of Saints in Rome , a total of 1,359 beatifications and canonisations took place during this century alone , more than one a month . |
| 13 | ‘ If I were to go to only one meeting a year for each of them , it would still be more than one a week , ’ he confesses , admitting that it is one of his greatest weaknesses . |
| 14 | EIGHTY-FOUR women — more than two a day — sought refuge or help with Edinburgh Women 's Aid last month . |
| 15 | High-cost patients would have their higher costs met by the district — patients who cost more than 5,000 a year would have the extra met by the district initially . |
| 16 | more than four a day if you 're a working man . |
| 17 | I very much hope that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-East ( Mr. Turner ) , as well as my hon. Friend , will welcome the fact that whereas in 1979 , 4 million working days were lost in the west midlands , recently days lost total little more than 100,000 a year . |
| 18 | No more than three a day and if |
| 19 | Excess eggs ( no more than three a week ) . |
| 20 | COMPANY failures in England and Wales have soared to their highest level more than three an hour since the recession started more than two years ago , according to new figures out today . |
| 21 | COMPANY failures in England and Wales have soared to their highest level more than three an hour since the recession started more than two years ago . |
| 22 | There are more than 200,000 a year in the United Kingdom alone . |
| 23 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 24 | As early as 1913 a conference was held of all local authorities in Greater London to plan comprehensively for arterial roads . |
| 25 | Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read . |
| 26 | Britain became involved with cable early on , the first worthwhile trial being that ‘ … carried out in 1838 by Brooke , an Englishman , across the river Hoohley in India ’ .3 Even as early as 1840 a House of Commons committee had looked into the possibility of connecting Dover with Calais . |
| 27 | As early as 1568 the translation of the first book of Polybius by Christopher Watson of St John 's College , Cambridge , was preceded by a poem in honour of the historian : Polybius reede where as in deede good physike shoult thou finde . |
| 28 | Already as early as 1436 the word had lost its original connotation of nobleman , and been extended to cover merchants and yeomen who had got rich , together with some landowners of as little as £5 a year claiming the title . |
| 29 | As early as 1483 an Act had been passed , legalizing the enclosure of coppices in the forests where felling had taken place , until seedling beech and oak had grown again . |
| 30 | As early as 1968 the government recognized that the development of DGH treatment services was not leading to the replacement of asylums . |