Example sentences of "one [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even without the Tory attacks on local government at that time , there are people who consider such close contact with any one political party a mistake . |
| 2 | And you do n't need say , you do n't need , you only need like one private function a week . |
| 3 | In one much-quoted case a holding of 30 acres in the manor of Plumpton , increased in scale value by nearly three hundred per cent in the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | Officially they get here one half-day and one free evening a week . |
| 5 | Have at least one proper meal a day , hot if possible . |
| 6 | One Latvian manning a barricade was shot and wounded . |
| 7 | Apart from her territorial gains , Britain got the right in the Treaty of Utrecht to sell 4,800 slaves a year in Spanish America which , at a normal profit of about £4 a head , might yield £20,000 , and in addition one British ship a year would be allowed to visit Cartagena and trade there . |
| 8 | Whilst dealers were firing difficult questions at the representative of an CTC traded company on the floor of one licensed dealer a couple of light fingered dealers were at work , helping themselves to their colleagues leads . |
| 9 | One early morning a friend came to tell us that two dead men had been left in the cemetery during the night . |
| 10 | According to the Commission for Racial Equality , one similar instance a week is being referred to them . |
| 11 | The Brooklyn Museum sacked employees , cancelled exhibitions , and closed one extra day a week . |
| 12 | If each employed man and woman worked one extra hour a day it would increase national production by over 7% . |
| 13 | During training — or later , if I wanted to knock her weight down for any reason — she 'd have one day-old chick a day . |
| 14 | ‘ We have 950 customers around the world , and even within one individual customer a variety of ledger systems are in use ; BP for example . |
| 15 | In Kent , the rate runs at an average of one official engagement a week . |
| 16 | Normally a practice would deal with just one infected dog a year . |
| 17 | In one fourteenth-century case a surname could have been Penerine , Penerive or even Penerme , and an interesting study on bynames and family names was thwarted . |
| 18 | Kapil Dev is past his prime , Manoj Prabhakar usually only produces one good spell a Test and leg-spinner Anil Kumble rarely turns the ball past the outside edge . |
| 19 | A good breakfast , dinner and tea , and here I 'm only getting one decent meal a day . |
| 20 | It is situated in the main hospital corridor one full day a week . |
| 21 | There she stayed , with the help of the home care service and a watchful nurse specialist ; one short illness a year later was managed by the hospital team which already knew her . |
| 22 | So again the trend today is towards people having at least one overseas trip a year and possibly two or three short break weekends as well . |
| 23 | All aim to restrict calorie intake but most allow for one small treat a day , such as a small glass of dry wine or a chocolate biscuit . |
| 24 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 25 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 26 | The common law standard was itself subject to differing interpretations in different States and , more important , even within any one particular State a person might be an independent contractor for the purposes of vicarious liability while being an employee for the purposes of unemployment compensation . |
| 27 | The training lasted only four months , but during that time the young mother was only able to spend one precious afternoon a week with her babies . |
| 28 | One other afternoon a week her desk is occupied by a quiet , middle-aged woman bookkeeper who does the accounts . |
| 29 | However , we have no executive committee , and we have only one other meeting a year , erm , if you , I , I would like you to suggest that if you accept this restructuring of er , the organisation , and the fact that the members will not be attending other meetings during the year , you might see fit to allow the attendance allowance on this particular sub-committee . |
| 30 | In 1989 the Church of England Newspaper had a banner headline informing its readership that ‘ One New Church a Month ’ was being planted . |