Example sentences of "two [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paula and Louise had been nominated to sell the raffle tickets and did a round of the hall , flirting outrageously and telling all the boys the tickets were ‘ sixpence each or two shillings a strip ’ . |
| 2 | And there was cotton gingham at two shillings a yard , you 'd have a smashing blouse out of that at six shillings , maybe four of them to go with each of the skirts . |
| 3 | erm , you know , nighttime and the champagne was only two shillings a bottle and er really had a lovely time . |
| 4 | Vi had a roof over her head again , bed and board and two shillings a day pay , and , better than that , she had found someone to mother . |
| 5 | Unemployed members who had only two shillings a day came twelve miles by train to attend street corner meetings , or to undertake office duties , spent the surviving pennies on food , and walked home into the small hours of the morning in winter weather . |
| 6 | I think I could pay you two shillings a week for the first year and we 'd have to see how things went . |
| 7 | Hari knew that the two shillings a week would be crippling unless Edward Morris lived up to his promise of bringing in extra business . |
| 8 | ‘ Two shillings a week rent . |
| 9 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 10 | P&O has two sailings a day from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge , crossing time five and a half hours . |
| 11 | Fact File Hook of Holland Ferries : Sealink ( 0233 47047 ) has two sailings a day in each direction from Harwich to the Hook , crossing time around seven hours ; a 53-hour return for a car and two adults costs from £77 . |
| 12 | Vlissingen Ferries : Olau Line ( 0795 666666 ) operates two sailings a day from Sheerness to Vlissingen : crossing time is from seven hours . |
| 13 | In less than two minutes a wreck of a woman staggers , rather than walks towards the counter . |
| 14 | However , in a separate report compiled by consultant analyst Brian Sturgess , ‘ The Funding Bible ’ , the BBC is urged to take advertising , predicting that a mere two minutes a day on both BBC1 and BBC2 would net the Corporation £433m by the year 2000 at 1991 prices . |
| 15 | Within two minutes a monolayer was produced . |
| 16 | Polish housewives no longer have to spend two hours a day in queues , and they can choose between 15 brands of mineral water , when once only one diesel-flavoured Polish brand was on offer . |
| 17 | Rivalry is hot ; each superstar spends two hours a day in the gym and the rest of the time eating to keep up their colossal weight . |
| 18 | Parents come on an observation day first , then accompany their children for one to two hours a day , five days a week . |
| 19 | Lessons took up only two hours a day and the farm work was badly organised . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll do the two hours a day . |
| 21 | In co-operation with Finsbury Borough Council it established the first ‘ sheltered ’ work-room where ‘ elderly workers could be employed for two hours a day , on small assembling and packing jobs provided by local firms , paying the fair rate for the work completed ’ . |
| 22 | Jojo Gonzales , who is both director of research at Jardine Fleming in Manila and less congenitally optimistic than most Filipinos , thinks that , by next spring , power cuts will average only two hours a day . |
| 23 | Finally , there are plans to provide custodians a sore point to enable the churches to open for two hours a day . |
| 24 | The fall in output was largely due to a shortage of electricity which by November could not be assured for more than two hours a day . |
| 25 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 26 | He disciplines himself to at least two hours a day in his upstairs studio where he also produces screen printing , water colours and acrylics . |
| 27 | Unfortunately at the moment we have had to move the playgroup into temporary accommodation so we can only offer two hours a day . |
| 28 | Apart from two hours a day , Carmelites observe complete silence , pray in solitude and work . |
| 29 | My own experience , my own area , we have Harry , he had cancer hospital no family , he had a home carer for two hours a day , he lasted two days and died . |
| 30 | You wasted two hours a day in and out and in and out of college . |