Example sentences of "one [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 2 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 3 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 4 | Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school . |
| 5 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 6 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 7 | One week later a double blind challenge with Vivonex resulted in recurrence of vomiting and diarrhoea that resolved immediately when her feed was changed . |
| 8 | In one week recently a fumigation trailer and two pest control vans were stolen , a Healthcare side-loader was broken into , there was an alleged poisoning of a dog by a Rentokil product , and a threat to contaminate cans of food with a Rentokil rodenticide . |
| 9 | ‘ There is one signal scarcely a mile behind us and there are three more towards the south . |
| 10 | He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder . |
| 11 | Visits from the prisoner 's family may be limited to one half-hour twice a month , but since that may involve a 400 mile round journey even such infrequent visits may not be possible . |
| 12 | With it has sprung a variety of names and product descriptions with some of the more common being ‘ germicidal detergent ’ ; ‘ detergent sanitiser ’ ; ‘ detergent sterilant ’ and the simple ‘ sterilant ’ These titles and any combination thereof all mean one thing namely a sanitiser . |
| 13 | That is one reason even a smoothly-run and uneventful Libyan poll took some time to complete . |
| 14 | The Black Boy though now a public house was at one time also a farm for when Robert Hearnden ran the public house in 1840 he also farmed a considerable amount of land , where the large pit is now situated and down into the village . |
| 15 | At one time quite a modest stock of components would enable you to build practically anything that came along in the electronics press , although the cost of the components would have been very high by today 's standards . |
| 16 | At one time only a few selected diseases were thought to have links with the sufferer 's state of mind , but now it is recognized that a whole range — from cancer to heart attack — may be brought on by worry and strain . |
| 17 | If , however , there was an increase in returns and still births producing a reduction in numbers born alive by one piglet less a sow a year , the figures would be very different . |