Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be twenty five pound a day as well , or fifty pound a day as well . |
| 2 | Well a man is n't subject to moods or premenstrual tension a guy is n't going to phone in sick with some crap about cramps . |
| 3 | Sort of three pounds for a couple of little , little pairs of knickers and that and that 's a lot when you think they when she first starts she 's gon na be getting through seven or eight pairs a day . |
| 4 | No sooner had IBM Corp announced a grotesque $5,463m net loss for the fourth quarter , which included a first ever operating loss of $45m or eight cents a share , than IBM UK Ltd chipped in with figures that were relatively even worse than those of its parent . |
| 5 | round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol |
| 6 | I can well believe that when he now catches this distinctive smell when passing Indian or Pakistani restaurants a nausea returns to him — it is , so to speak , the cuisine of shame . |
| 7 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 8 | We do that in Parliament and my minicab drivers tell me that they work about 60 or 70 hours a week . |
| 9 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 10 | In order to reflect a relative difference between the ear or half fields a laterality coefficient may be computed according to the formula |
| 11 | ten pounds like this gentleman for a child which costs thirty or forty pounds a week to bring up . |
| 12 | He loved to swim and was capable of walking thirty or forty miles a day with a quick , light step described as slightly feminine . |
| 13 | But in another variety of comic crime fiction you can take as a chief character , as indeed your detective , a person who is to a greater or lesser extent a figure of fun , someone prone to fall victim to more or less ridiculous circumstances . |
| 14 | By 1985 the five network companies were producing 45.5 per cent of the ITV programmes , amounting to more than 40 peak or near-peak hours a week . |
| 15 | In September 1989 a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) representative addressed the ninth meeting of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) tropical forestry development committee , and was quoted as saying that official estimates of rainforest depletion ( widely quoted as 11,000,000 hectares or 110,000 km a year ) were " perhaps 60 per cent or more under the actual [ depletion level ] " . |
| 16 | Opo developed a special friendship with a 12-year-old girl , who would enter the water five or six times a day to swim with or stand and talk to her . |
| 17 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 18 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 19 | It seems she saw her father five or six times a year and her grandfather less often than that , though the old man used to send her substantial cash presents at Christmas and on her birthday . ’ |
| 20 | The first task was to finish putting together the ‘ Darlington Drinker ’ , a local magazine which goes out five or six times a year to pubs around the area . |
| 21 | Choristers sing Evensong generally five or six times a week , as well as services twice or three times on Sundays . |
| 22 | ‘ This weekend was exceptional , but we are regularly there five or six times a week , ’ said Mr Warrior . |
| 23 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 24 | Most of us need less sleep as we get older — perhaps five or six hours a night instead of eight . |
| 25 | I 'd have got them for five or six quid a window |
| 26 | The letters arrive all year round though Praise Be is shown for only five or six weeks a year . |
| 27 | We 're not just playing a weekend game , but working five or six days a week , so there are bound to be problems of mental fatigue and photographers become stale and burned out . |
| 28 | In some cases , the accompanying wall texts give details of the sittings : , the model for Euan Uglow 's ‘ Zagi ’ ( 1981–2 ) sat for five hours a day , five or six days a week , during a period from Easter 1981 to Easter 1982 . |
| 29 | He delivers nearly 6,000 pints a week or 270,000 pints a year . |
| 30 | The runner with a good endurance base finds training easier , and will recover properly from it — that is why the top-class 10,000m runners run 90 or 100 miles a week . |