Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on the phone cos we only speak once a week , well I do n't think |
| 2 | deadlines , a lot of these trusts only meet once a quarter |
| 3 | ‘ We only train twice a week so Orient are obviously fitter than us , but I thought we gave as good as we got . ’ |
| 4 | TB mares can be wintered in stalls but need daily exercise e.g. a horse walker |
| 5 | David Leadbetter stated that Ballesteros was brooding , that it had all become quite a grind for him . |
| 6 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 7 | So take away a positive I 'm going to take away a positive ten pounds away from you now . |
| 8 | So take away a minus three is the same as adding a plus three , and what would that come to ? |
| 9 | In a whole council election er if if the ruling party is massively behind in the opinion polls , then large numbers of them will be swept out of office and the opposition will get in , and the argument is that then you see a a you see a suddenly see then a reversal of policies . |
| 10 | However , the sums of the deficits and surpluses exactly offset one another so that all sectors together have neither a surplus nor a deficit . |
| 11 | I stop my crying and just sit there a bit . |
| 12 | Just stop here a minute . |
| 13 | ‘ Just wait here a second while I drop this in . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Just wait there a moment . ’ |
| 15 | Just hold tight a minute , because I want to go up here and talk to the customers . |
| 16 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 17 | ‘ After all , since the intimacy of our initial introduction , I already know quite a lot . ’ |
| 18 | When we we but we already do quite a lot of this anyway . |
| 19 | you come , you come with me a second , just come here a second with me , you just stand beside me , come here , oh poor Richard |
| 20 | ‘ Although fewer and fewer are now attending we still meet once a month and we find great strength from discussing problems and traumas . |
| 21 | ‘ We still owe quite a lot on that money we borrered fer the free'old . ’ |
| 22 | Unfortunately I do n't think they have n't confirmed as they usua most organizations usually do about a week beforehand er by phone , to make sure it 's alright , and I 've lost their letter . |
| 23 | I usually have quite a lot of homework on Wednesday nights . |
| 24 | An I still have quite a lot of hair … |
| 25 | They stretch the current notions of ‘ document abstraction ’ to breaking point , showing us that we still have only an inkling of what a ‘ document ’ could be once all the underlying technologies are mature , let alone what it should be . |
| 26 | erm and of course , er , normal years they also earn quite a lot from exporting their cat |
| 27 | Another couple at Acomb for twenty pounds and then they also give just a cost for Ripon and Scarborough . |
| 28 | That is to say , I earn a lot , but I also give quite a lot away in different ways . |
| 29 | We probably know quite a lot of people who are taking exams of one sort or another at the moment . |
| 30 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |