Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Czechoslovakian studies show that children aged 6 to 14 years who reside near an aluminium smelter ingest more than 2 milligrams fluoride a day from air , water , animal foodstuffs and plants although their drinking water was not fluoridated . |
| 2 | In four there was persistence of symptoms and endoscopic evidence of failure of ulcer healing despite three months of treatment with 300 mg ranitidine a day . |
| 3 | MORE than 100 youngsters attended a day for middle distance athletes held at Cleveland County Stadium in Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | Researchers in Sheffield analysed the contents of several popular brands and found that giving a baby the recommended dose of eight 5ml spoons a day is equivalent to an adult drinking five tots of whisky ! |
| 5 | The range of attitudes is illustrated by strategies that state , at one extreme , that ‘ all people should be provided with access to public transport services for three return trips a day to the nearest market town , providing for a journey to work in the morning , a mid-day shopping journey and a journey home in the evening … ’ , and suggest , at the other extreme , that all ‘ deep ’ rural areas should have a public transport service to a local centre on at least two days a week or that all sizeable villages should be served by public transport on one day a week ( Adams et al . |
| 6 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 7 | THREE Mars bars a day will help Dr John Apps work , rest and play . |
| 8 | Five minutes footage a day is good going and they use only 1 foot of film out of every 15 feet shot . |
| 9 | Oh er I used to , about four or five board boards a day oh yeah . |
| 10 | When it first opened , the service operated 8 passenger trains a day , 4 up and down and 2 daily goods , 6 days a week . |
| 11 | And quite quite honestly our top earners are top earners because they wo n't sit back and do one advertising deal a day and say , Hey are n't I clever . |
| 12 | A court of appeal in Angers ruled on April 19 that Jean-Pierre 's investigations into Urbatechnic had been carried out in conformity with the law , and on May 16 magistrates held a day of action on the theme of justice and liberty . |
| 13 | The report said that of 1,330 active oil wells , about 700 were on fire at the end of April , with between 2,000,000-6,000,000 barrels lost a day , and it estimated that bringing the fires under control " may take up to 18 months " . |
| 14 | The firm now employs 14 solicitors and associates , who are completing 10 to 15 house purchases a day , and has clients all over the country and across the globe . |
| 15 | For the duration of the mela as many as twenty pilgrim trains a day , each carrying a thousand passengers , might be brought into Allahabad in addition to the normal traffic . |
| 16 | The Limit has arranged — courtesy of EMI Records — for two readers to spend a day with chart band Marillion in their Aylesbury studio . |
| 17 | They held it here , in a pleasant village outside London , and ran up to a hundred excursion trains a day out to it . |
| 18 | See what can be done without filtration if you have a pollution-free source of water and can make one or two water changes a day . |