Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] a [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And they used to take about six loads a day you see .
2 The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for .
3 But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce .
4 And erm so really three times a day I had to er make tea .
5 And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal .
6 Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 .
7 Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm .
8 For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it .
9 These 20 hours are on top of the average 35 hours a week he spends in his regular job .
10 ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’
11 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 .
12 Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned .
13 At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school .
14 The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up .
15 The amiable Cube boys — Chris , Pat and Mark — have continually promoted a wide variety of up and coming acts in a friendly setting and with three bands a night you can usually find something to make your ears prick up .
16 On three days a week we start off with a a staff meeting at 2.30 .
17 Well look at a miner I mean if he worked three days a week he might only get thirty shillings , in tho very very very seldom worked a full week .
18 I 'm thinking of either three pounds a ticket you 're getting close to the price of a special chauffeur .
19 But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary .
20 Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill .
21 Nothing threatens the chances of Alton Bass finishing in touch with the top of Hampshire League division one more than a punishing programme of three matches a week they need to complete in order to catch up on their fixture backing .
22 For three mornings a week she went to a playgroup run by a friend who was a trained Froebel teacher .
23 I was filming Neighbours five days a week and then two or three nights a week we were gigging . ’
24 If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments .
25 Now , yes I mean i i in , in terms of two thousand calories a day it , it s it seems to be six hundred and fifty , seven hundred calories , er seven hundred , right , now th th there are those who argue the hundred and fifty is starvation level .
26 er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ?
27 ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’
28 Five thousand francs a kilo they were fetching today , and a week later in London shops 12s. 6d. each for little tiny ones .
29 For instance , as long as you average 8,750 calories a week you will shed weight just as quickly by having as many as 1,870 a day on Saturdays and Sundays , and only 1,000 each weekday , as you would by counting precisely 1,250 calories a day for all seven days of the week .
30 If you start edging up to ten cups a day you will become over stimulated and your heart and circulatory system will be affected .
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