Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 2 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
| 3 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 4 | Other regular earnings , for example , from a second job a few evenings a week |
| 5 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 6 | Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day . |
| 7 | Pay alimony a hundred times the roll of both dice , return to lower class ! |
| 8 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 9 | But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year . |
| 10 | So what 's different about Mark 's plan to sell components from our European plants into the United States , if we can save the Corporation a billion dollars a year by doin' so ? , |
| 11 | If the children get half a dozen whacks with a slipper a few times a year , surely it 's not abuse ? |
| 12 | She comes into the capital a few nights a week , moonlighting from her day job , which is being a seamstress . |
| 13 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 14 | Why endeavour to demystify the ‘ subtext ’ of a lager commercial when that supposed subtext could scarcely lie closer to the surface and is being forced on one 's attention the way a card-sharper forces a card ? |