Example sentences of "the [noun sg] every few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you should change the soil in the wormery every few weeks , this is the time to search through the soil for egg capsules . |
| 2 | But Ninagawa stops the action every few minutes to make tiny adjustments . |
| 3 | If the launch seems slow , check the speed every few seconds . |
| 4 | A perk of the office is to be invited to lunch with the Queen every few years . |
| 5 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 6 | Penry 's been on the phone every few minutes to see if you 've arrived . |
| 7 | He crossed to his drinks cabinet and poured himself another large measure of whisky , glancing at the phone every few seconds as if willing it to ring . |
| 8 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
| 9 | If you get out of position and if you find yourself too low , move up slowly in small steps , checking the movement every few feet . |
| 10 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 11 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 12 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 13 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 14 | If the decision is made to continue with a circuit , use a well-banked turn and monitor the airspeed every few seconds . |