Example sentences of "for three [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three mornings a week she went to a playgroup run by a friend who was a trained Froebel teacher . |
| 2 | And sometimes I walked down lace market for me dinner and m And er we used to have to go on er on green , for three penn'orth a breast of mutton , to make stew and hap'orth of mixed potherbs , and do together and it were lovely . |
| 3 | One of the most popular forms of transport in London at that time was the omnibus drawn by a pair of horses — worked for three hours a day , with a rest every half-mile — which , by 1890 , had become double-deckers with an outside staircase at the back , and which held up to twenty-six passengers . |
| 4 | Though Coleridge was lonely , and made ill by the dampness of his rooms , he quickly became a regular attender at chapel , read mathematics for three hours a day , and in ‘ Leisure hours ’ was making translations of Anacreon . |
| 5 | Some have developed leukaemia , others feel so tired that they can only attend school for three hours a day . |
| 6 | In 1985–86 , for example , Roehampton Institute engaged a headteacher to work with a college for six hours a week and ten other teachers for three hours a week . |
| 7 | The busiest time is in summer , with up to a thousand covers for three meals a day , seven days a week , which means recruiting up to 20 extra staff . |
| 8 | They could offer him full board with a bedroom and sitting room on the ground floor for three pounds a week . |
| 9 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 10 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 11 | She negotiated with Henry and the Residential Centre and fixed up for him to attend the scheme for three days a week . |
| 12 | Moreover , the government had earlier proposed that Parliament should sit for three days a week , instead of five . |
| 13 | Fresh for three quid a week buy a trailer , want a trailer ? through these sales people who . |
| 14 | Everybody used to come to New York City for three weeks a year and go to all the galleries . |
| 15 | For most of the 1970s while living in the Borders I was commuting to London by air for three nights a week to present late-night current affairs programmes — 24 Hours , Midweek , Tonight , Newsday . |