Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] a [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 2 | And they used to take about six loads a day you see . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce . |
| 5 | And erm so really three times a day I had to er make tea . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These 20 hours are on top of the average 35 hours a week he spends in his regular job . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | On three days a week we start off with a a staff meeting at 2.30 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm thinking of either three pounds a ticket you 're getting close to the price of a special chauffeur . |
| 20 | But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For three mornings a week she went to a playgroup run by a friend who was a trained Froebel teacher . |
| 24 | I was filming Neighbours five days a week and then two or three nights a week we were gigging . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Five thousand francs a kilo they were fetching today , and a week later in London shops 12s. 6d. each for little tiny ones . |
| 30 | It was n't its actual speed there will be sometimes it will be going very slowly , sometimes it will be going much more quickly but its average speed was sixty miles an hour because at sixty miles an hour it would cover a hundred and twenty miles , which was the distance , in two hours . |