Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] [noun] [art] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | For things they want daily or several times a week they go to the local village , or in a town they go to the local suburban shops , or the ‘ corner ’ shop . |
| 2 | EAT 2 OR 3 TIMES A WEEK |
| 3 | Music is played in the lounge 2 or 3 times a week . |
| 4 | The most common pattern seems to be sex 2 or 3 times a week . |
| 5 | Other players knock a ball about six or seven times a week . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The organization is infectious ; many people have joined intending to make a small , easily-managed commitment and ended up doing three or four shifts a week and taking on extra work until sometimes their whole life becomes bound up in the organization . |
| 8 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 9 | In the summer months it was polo , which he played unremittingly three or four times a week . |
| 10 | Again , three or four times a week he would push himself to the limit , galloping across the countryside with the hounds , risking life and limb in another of the most physically exacting sports known to man . |
| 11 | Charles played polo unremittingly three or four times a week . |
| 12 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 13 | THE regular runs by main line steam locomotives between Crewe and Holyhead , at least once a month , throughout the winter , and three or four times a week during the summer , have provided a spectacular subject for a series of videos for ‘ steam ’ enthusiasts . |
| 14 | Fred told me you used to have shepherd 's pie three or four times a week when you were in music hall . |
| 15 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
| 16 | These exercises should be done three or four times a week . |
| 17 | We were all getting fed up with it cos , having to stay on the gate five hours a day you know , three or four times a week . |
| 18 | But we see each other three or four times a week . ’ |
| 19 | Paul Llewelyn Jones told a jury at Mold Crown Court he was beaten with a cane or a whip three or four times a week and was forced to scour bins for food . |
| 20 | Paul Llewelyn Jones told a jury at Mold Crown Court he was beaten with a cane or a whip three or four times a week and was forced to scour bins for food . |
| 21 | ‘ It is unfair for some clubs to have to play three or four times a week during May to complete their lists . ’ |
| 22 | She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse . |
| 23 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 24 | This opposition , expressed in terms of adult education , seems out of all proportion given that most women can expect to spend at most three or four hours a week in women-only classes as against a lifetime in the world of men . |
| 25 | He went out three or four nights a week at first and then every night . |
| 26 | I mean if , if people smoke too much , I mean they should put the kids before the c the cigarettes , and erm people I have heard say that , I 've seen in the pub three or four nights a week . |
| 27 | Three or four nights a week I also wait at dinner . |
| 28 | Whilst he was Dean of Westminster he would devote three or four evenings a week to teaching the older boys of Westminster School : one of them remembered how he also would take the younger ones with him for walks ‘ and in that wayfaring leisure had a singular dexterity to fill those narrow vessels with a funnel … . |
| 29 | ( 1982 ) found that one-third of normal 3-year-olds still wet the bed three or more times a week . |
| 30 | Choristers sing Evensong generally five or six times a week , as well as services twice or three times on Sundays . |