Example sentences of "a week [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 2 | The five times a week non-stop service will depart Manchester at 10.00 hours , arriving in Los Angeles at 1320 hours . |
| 3 | The residential allowance , to be paid by the Benefits Agency as a contribution towards the housing needs of elderly people in residential care , will be a £45 a week flat rate for all homes , or £50 in London . |
| 4 | A home-owning pensioner over 75 who does not qualify for income support gets a mere 50p a week extra rate . |
| 5 | Can I remember you that you 're supposed to be working on this for a minimum a minimum of four weeks for about three quarters of an hour a week minimum time ! |
| 6 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 7 | Students for a week each term at Lurvaine University , has been invited to continue the experiment during the coming academic year . |
| 8 | Through a week long campaign on both Max-Am and RFM stations it is possible to reach a large audience in the Lothians . |
| 9 | You can choose from a weekend ( £95 ) or a week long holiday ( £265 ) where you 'll observe wild life while walking an average of six to eight miles each day . |
| 10 | The cost is £186 for a week long dinghy sailing course and £285 for a yacht cruising course . |
| 11 | ‘ The council has negotiated more than 250 hours a week free court time for young people and community groups and the firm itself operates an ‘ open door ’ policy , allowing local people access when the courts are unused . ’ |
| 12 | Their cash has fallen from an average £4.20 a week last year to £4 , a survey reveals today . |
| 13 | The average household spent £259 a week last year , an increase of 4.8 per cent since 1990 . |
| 14 | More than 600 new cases are emerging every week , compared with 437 a week last year . |
| 15 | Energy costs are low as well , Hardman claims , with the average energy costs of an Urbanbuild home running at £5 a week last winter , compared with £20 a week in the smaller concrete flats nearby . |
| 16 | ‘ That only lasted a week last time , ’ Mandy taunted , with no concern at all . |
| 17 | We hired a 20′ x 10′ marquee for a week last Xmas as our wing covering garden workshop , and by New Year all tail and wing surfaces were covered but not yet painted . |
| 18 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 19 | Clark , in action at least twice a week this season , admitted : ‘ I 'm disappointed because I do n't feel tired — nobody does when things are going so well . ’ |
| 20 | 11.00 : Art students are here today one day a week this term from the local Poly . |
| 21 | Runswick Bay , a multi-million pound investment by Yorkshire Television , is due to go out on the network five days a week next year . |
| 22 | ‘ Our home record is superb and we could play three home games in a week next month . ’ |
| 23 | Can anyone recommend somebody who would like a few hours a week domestic cleaning ( and maybe occasional catering work ? ) |
| 24 | We 're going to have a week three event possibly as well . |
| 25 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 26 | Well I think Lee , he , he just realise , I mean I mean he only sees her once a week any way , does n't he ? but you know , she is , she is a lovely girl |
| 27 | Well that 's it , it might lead to better things might n't it , I say it might do them good to be away from each other for a week any way , might n't it ? |