Example sentences of "every [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once every eight weeks the card 'll be on your door for the Big Turn and you pay me to scrub the close . |
| 2 | Every few minutes a man came in and called someone 's name . |
| 3 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 4 | Every few minutes a shell would swish over the rooftops to explode with a roar in the docks ; and more Syrian troops — nearer to the explosions and silhouetted against the sea — could be seen running beside the harbour wall . |
| 5 | Every few minutes a plate crashed to the floor . |
| 6 | Every few minutes a train rolled in , as if from some inexhaustible magazine of trains beyond the horizon , and , sucking into itself a multitude and departing again , left one platform for one moment emptying — and the next moment the platform was once more filled by the quenchless stream … |
| 7 | Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs . |
| 8 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 9 | Every few years the industry begins a campaign , backed in medical journals , for release from its shackles . |
| 10 | Every few seconds a plane would take off as another approached the cross runway , with a third coming in behind the take-off plane to land . |
| 11 | Every few lessons the class has a criticism , and the children will criticise each others ' work . |
| 12 | Home was a little nearer , and with every few miles the countryside grew a little uglier . |
| 13 | Once every six months the Profitboss takes his team away to a hotel for a two- or three-day residential workshop , perhaps from a Thursday to Saturday . |
| 14 | Once every six months the shopkeeper would come and pay his regards . |
| 15 | Every six weeks an EITB officer has called in to monitor their progress and on they successfully completed their training . |
| 16 | Every thirteen years the eye needs double the amount of light to see so good lighting is very important in making the most of sight . |
| 17 | Every 10 seconds the display changes to show elapsed bottom time on an otherwise clear screen , to avoid confusion . |
| 18 | For every 250 soldiers there is a general , for every three soldiers an officer . |
| 19 | Every three hours the Met Assistant had to plot a chart — that is , working from the coded symbols sent on the teleprinter , draw up on a large blank map of Great Britain the weather at that time over the whole country . |
| 20 | As an example , every three months the buyer gives a 12 months forward forecast . |
| 21 | Every three months the library produces a bibliography which refers by categories to longer articles held in the library . |
| 22 | and you 've got to develop the relationships so it does n't become ridiculous and you deserve , you 're disturbed every ten minutes every night of the week . |
| 23 | Certainly with the additional liability of a periodic tax every ten years no truster will settle funds in a discretionary trust if he can achieve his aims in any other way . |
| 24 | ALTP/CL Class I standards will remain almost the same , apart from a haemoglobin blood test every medical , and every five years a serum lipids ( fats ) cholesterol test . |
| 25 | But roughly every five years a tide of warm water ( up to 30°C ) flows down the coast from the equator ; the nutrients in this water have already been removed by equatorial plankton . |
| 26 | Every time a policeman in America , every four times a policeman in America , that could be a policeman in New York , a policeman in Los Angeles , a policeman in Boston and a policeman in Seattle yeah ? |
| 27 | The losses of individual counties were relatively small and every four years the visit of the Australians helped to replenish the kitty . |
| 28 | Every four weeks the body temperature rises and the ground squirrel awakens and moves about , even venturing outside the burrow . |
| 29 | Every two years the Medau College holds a Whitsuntide course for Medau teachers and I always find it most stimulating to renew contact with our German colleagues . |
| 30 | Every two years the IBOA is reborn . |