Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For example … / in the old days a man of my standing would never have gone to the shops ; everything would be sent to his house : grain , chillies , cotton , cloth .
2 In the old days a man could be left to languish in prison uncharged and forgotten .
3 She spoke recently of the strain of the six days a week work schedule that she said had left her shattered .
4 ‘ In the early days a woman stand-up comic was not really accepted .
5 There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall .
6 Thence it moves into existing management training — and every manager gets at least five days a year about managing people , in addition to the five days a year basic training that every IBMer is supposed to have .
7 Within a few days a unit was formed in Halling under the command of Captain Wanstall .
8 The incident came at an awkward time , preceding by a few days a visit by the Chief Rabbi .
9 For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team .
10 Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock .
11 Within a few days a reply came .
12 After a few days a population of adherent migratory cells is found surrounding the initial explant , which by various criteria , including contribution to melanocytes in vivo ( 13 ) , appear to be a relatively pure population of neural crest cells .
13 ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said .
14 But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings .
15 Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week .
16 The new row follows uproar over Janet Sainsbury 's appointment at £11,720 a year for two and a half days a week , as chairman of South Glamorgan Family Health Authority .
17 when it got to the stage that we only open like , one and a half days a week
18 This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service .
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