Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 90 overs a day ruling is to be commended . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll do the two hours a day . |
| 3 | This is true of the Great Little Trains with Bala lake apparently very badly hit , the Ffestiniog being quiet and the same can be said of the V of R in Aberystwyth where for most of June early July just 4 coaches serviced the two trains a day up the valley . |
| 4 | He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 7 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 8 | AFTER THE MONTHS of location shooting in Cornwall , and the completion of the interiors of Straw Dogs at Twickenham Studios in London in March 1971 , Dustin returned to his New York home , determined to spend as much time as possible with his family , only going down to his production office , SweetWall Productions , on West 56th Street , for a few hours a day . |
| 9 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |
| 10 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |
| 11 | ‘ Initially people think bonsai trees must be quite difficult to keep , but all it takes is a few minutes a day to see they are properly watered . |
| 12 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 13 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 14 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 15 | Children spend some five and a half hours a day in a classroom for 40 weeks a year . |
| 16 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 17 | one and a half tapes a day , yeah , it 's , it 's a doddle , but erm , not , not only have you got to know how it functions , but you 've got to know , know you 've got to fill in your , your document |
| 18 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |
| 19 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |
| 20 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
| 21 | Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned . |
| 22 | Whores did this , after all , a dozen times a day and would not recognize the man should they meet him in the street an hour later . |
| 23 | The Leeming airfield can get busy at times , so anything up to a dozen Tornados a day can visit us for refuelling . |
| 24 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 25 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
| 26 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 27 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 28 | All I have to worry about is designing , instead of production ETAs or trying to work out my taxes whilst being in a million meetings a day . |
| 29 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 30 | Last year bad debts cost a million pounds a day . |