Example sentences of "a [noun] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why a clove a day keeps the doctor away . |
| 2 | The sample showed milk yields up from 18.6 litres a cow a day in April to 19.5 litres in May , with 75% of the milk coming from forage . |
| 3 | February 14 is a Friday a day when many MPs travel back to their homes and such is our Parliamentary process that unless at least 100 Members of Parliament attend the House of Commons to support the Bill , a few hunting MPs could destroy the Bill by ‘ talking it out ’ . |
| 4 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 5 | When it 's available I get by on half a gram a day . |
| 6 | Gim me a gram a day and I 'll stay numb . ’ |
| 7 | You used to get a bob a day for that . |
| 8 | What different have you got ta do a , a tape a day or something ? |
| 9 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 10 | Her rent was ten pounds a week , and the babysitter cost a pound a day , which left three pounds to live on — just enough to pay her grocery bill . |
| 11 | A pound a day and we were millionaires were n't we ? |
| 12 | Rose Choque is fourteen , she works here every day , earning just under a pound a day . |
| 13 | Some get about a pound a week , while on girl gets a pound a day , another five pounds a fortnight . |
| 14 | Another race he could have won was staged across the Hoggar Mountains of the Algerian Sahara , where , after running a marathon a day in intense heat for 13 days , he deliberately slowed to allow another runner to win . |
| 15 | At that point the creditor could still refuse to have the man released from prison and insist of his being kept there , so long as he paid him a groat a day . |
| 16 | A JOKE a day keeps the blues away in traffic jams . |
| 17 | I was bringing in a patron a day . ’ |
| 18 | What a difference a day makes . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll be amazed what a difference a day or two will make . |
| 20 | As our pictures show what a difference a day makes ! |
| 21 | What a difference a day makes : A smiling Di goes it alone ( far left ) ; just 24 hours earlier accompanying her husband |
| 22 | But a Guinness a day you know . |
| 23 | oh we have a newspaper a day |
| 24 | I 've bought all sorts really , but normally in the first week or two of getting paid , I 'd buy a gram or whatever and make it last for four or five days , so I 'd sort of have a quarter a day out of it . |
| 25 | According to an abstract of the time , ‘ Half a pint a day six days a week for six weeks for patients suffering from rheumatic gout and similar affections was advised by the late Sir F. Treves . |
| 26 | ‘ I always have a pint a day and sometimes maybe two . |
| 27 | Mm , oh he 'll have a pint a day |
| 28 | And then so he was getting , he was getting a pint a day |
| 29 | Patrick Wintour adds : Motorists in London wanting to take their car into capital should be required to buy a £ 4 a day licence which would also give them access to free public transport in the City , The Liberal Democrats yesterday recommended a £4 a day central London charge , to include free out-of-centre parking and a public transport pass . |
| 30 | Well us lot must walk about half a mile a day you know . |