Example sentences of "[prep] one [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members paid a fee of one shilling a year and one penny a week for each book borrowed . |
| 2 | This enables our employees to use the equivalent of one afternoon a week during working hours , for approved community activities , always of course , subject to workload . |
| 3 | Ideally , the shadow should spend an uninterrupted week or fortnight with his opposite number , but if that is impracticable , a regular visit of one day a week throughout the term would be satisfactory . |
| 4 | Inman was retired prematurely and his post abolished , and Hunt was given an annual salary of £1,000 for a minimum of one day a week at the Office , although according to the Secretary , he was usually there ‘ nearly half a week ’ . |
| 5 | LEAs could provide nursery schools and classes ; they could provide or finance holiday classes , camps , play schemes , swimming baths , community centres and recreation facilities ; and were given the responsibility ( never implemented ) to ensure that all young people up to age 18 , and not otherwise in education , received part-time further education by attending a ‘ county college ’ for the equivalent of one day a week . |
| 6 | The princely sum of one guinea a month was agreed on , and though it was not as much as Beth would have liked , it was a welcome increase , and one that positively staggered her disbelieving husband . |
| 7 | They will have to reside there for a minimum of one month a year , but this may be waived for up to five years by an annual payment of $5,000 to the Bahamian government . |
| 8 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 9 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 10 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 11 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 12 | A fee of one penny a week was initially charged to attend the night classes but after objections from the 18 to 20 year olds the teaching was provided gratuitously resulting in improved attendance with the " boys " advancing rapidly . |
| 13 | If those at the Tate do not believe that the acquisition of one picture a year is sufficient to keep its contemporary art collection up to date , the Government could tell them to use the powers in the Bill to dispose of works of art . |
| 14 | The government on Dec. 15 won by 309 votes to 256 with one abstention a vote of confidence attached to a bill on regional aid to the south . |
| 15 | I may have mentioned one and that is that not satisfied with one deal a day |
| 16 | Our top people earn top money because A they 're not satisfied with one deal a day . |
| 17 | Bringing a group of patients together is a useful way of getting patients currently content with one injection a day to enquire why they are not having two injections a day as are the other patients they have met . |
| 18 | It stands six miles outside Oxford , in lovely and in those days remote country , with one bus a day . |
| 19 | For its part the Italian government agreed to convene within one month a conference of aid donors to assemble a comprehensive assistance package for Mozambique . |
| 20 | In one case a contract was agreed and several sessions were held with a family consisting of grandmother , her son and his wife and their three teenage children . |
| 21 | In one case a councillor was fined because he was a builder and discussed the matter of direct labour at a housing committee . |
| 22 | In one case a price sticker was 22 months old . |
| 23 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 24 | He describes how in one case a girl from a poverty-stricken background went to live with a man who promised to marry her . |
| 25 | In one case a field officer inspecting a large garage which had been causing problems with an oil discharge was given an extensive tour of the premises and an offer of ( unspecified ) help with his car ( this case , together with the lavish hospitality of the McDonald 's case described in Chapter 2 , were the only examples of an inducement , however vague , being made in my presence ) . |
| 26 | ‘ In one case a parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ . |
| 27 | There are stories of gangs of roughs waylaying cyclists and pelting them with stones , and in one case a South London cowboy was brought before Lambeth court for lassoing cyclists — ‘ a kind of horseplay that must be stamped out at once ’ said the magistrate , with good reason . |
| 28 | In one case a child was removed from her mother after a fracture at the age of 18 months . |
| 29 | In one case a woman waited three quarters of an hour with her child screaming with an open wound . |
| 30 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |