Example sentences of "four [noun pl] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would practise the piano for three or four hours a day . |
| 2 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |
| 3 | In a sport in which fitness is so crucial — Noel Coward once said it was ‘ not exercise , it 's flagellation ’ — Marshall has worked the hardest of his career , some four hours a day , building up strength not weight . |
| 4 | On other flights , Soviet cosmonauts could work only about four hours a day . |
| 5 | Boots says a supply of alkaline batteries for a personal stereo used for four hours a day , five days a week over a year will cost about £90 , while rechargeable batteries and a charger cost from £18 to £27 ( from selected branches of Boots ) . |
| 6 | To avoid the risk of overdoing it , I would n't recommend the d-i-yer trying more than about four hours a day with these . |
| 7 | Programming trends that encourage people to watch rather than live reality might not sound like the healthiest thing for Americans , who on average already waste nine years of their lives — about four hours a day — in front of the tube . |
| 8 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 9 | Four hours a day for five days . ’ |
| 10 | In 1946 , when post-war service began , the TV set sat in the corner for most of the time , as the service lasted for only about four hours a day . |
| 11 | I was working in the middle of the coffee region and so the Supplies Team was also in charge of the coffee plantations , Normally it was the women who did the harvesting , working some four hours a day . |
| 12 | Er it 's important to keep that constant twenty four hours a day there 's a danger area when new born babies are actually put into their own rooms , particularly in the winter , if they 're in the room with their , with their parents and the room temperature falls very low , the parent 's likely to notice and get cold themselves which means they 'll pay attention to the baby , if the baby is far end of the house , up the north end where the wind 's blowing , right , er what else can we do to keep the baby warm ? |
| 13 | If I had the chance I 'd watch it twenty four hours a day ! |
| 14 | four hours a day , they do n't have a nine to five job , they 're on call twenty four hours a day and that 's a lot more stressful . |
| 15 | four hours a day , they do n't have a nine to five job , they 're on call twenty four hours a day and that 's a lot more stressful . |
| 16 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 17 | Twenty four hours a day in Nottingham . |
| 18 | And you know i if a chil a child is bruised , very often erm you know if it it especially with you know , maybe a mother who has a few children to look after , and she 's on her own twenty four hours a day with them . |
| 19 | And there was activity twenty four hours a day . |
| 20 | You could go out to the walkways , you could talk to somebody twenty four hours a day . |
| 21 | He produced his remarkable output in four hours a day — he found it too exacting to do more — in the mornings , with afternoons and evenings often spent walking or listening to records . |
| 22 | Melanie , a working mother , is contracted to work four hours a day , but , said Bob , ‘ even though she has the time consuming task of caring for her baby , when the situation has arisen , she has worked full days in order to ensure the smooth running of her team . ’ |
| 23 | see so if th if they get time off and they want extra men , they phone 'em up or somebody with a boat got bloke in the erm radio tower , cos you got a radio tower on the dock now which every ship that come into port or leave the port have to go through the radio tower and that man 's employed twenty four hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 24 | IN THE Autumn of 1992 , Connecticut-based Turbine Engine Services [ TES ] brought a continuous electricity supply to an isolated town in Eastern Malaysia — the first location in that part of the country not to endure three to four hours a day of blackouts on a regular basis . |
| 25 | Over and above the on-site team are service and branch managers who will visit premises on a weekly basis to ensure that they are being cleaned in accordance with the client 's needs , and they can be contacted twenty four hours a day , whether at home or work , by radio pagers . |
| 26 | Healthcare and Medical airfresh customers are afforded the luxury of having a fragrance in the atmosphere twenty four hours a day . |
| 27 | not erm the whole of Suffolk and erm the County Hall staff as a whole was divided into six shifts , erm and each shift was on duty for twenty four hours a day , for twenty four hours on |
| 28 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 29 | If we 're talking about using this sy er type of system for running mission critical systems where if the database goes down the business stops running and starts losing money , then we need to be able to run twenty four hours a day seven days a week . |
| 30 | There would be somebody on duty twenty four hours a day ? |