Example sentences of "one [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time a secretary answered , saying that as her employer ‘ has a large backlog of books to read , he found the addition of another one rather an embarrassment … he has passed it to a friend in a London hospital . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ask him the password , ’ a young woman said , with coral and amber beads jangling round her neck and hair like the plaited mane of a black , Arab stallion , ‘ the riddle-me-ree one only a Romany knows . ’ |
| 3 | Just an ordinary one not a corner one . |
| 4 | I made you one just a second ago . |
| 5 | Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year . |
| 6 | Well my brother was with went with that one once a boy As a boy . |
| 7 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 8 | one twice a day I I I would keep going with three month prescriptions anyway , so that 'll keep you going till the end of November No not quite the end of November , but you can then see him and say look , I 've got this this is why I 'm on these for . |
| 9 | All fun and game Just one twice a day . |
| 10 | The next step up is the hundreds , and you use them in exactly the same way , one twice a week . |
| 11 | He he 's on the second one quite a bit . |
| 12 | But in view of the fact that different actuaries can come to different answers and Professor Good quotes one where a difference of half per cent gives rise to a difference of a hundred and sixty seven million . |
| 13 | There is the one where a madcap home supporter gingerly urinates from above on opposition fans who are innocently drinking tea in what they take to be a gentle drizzle . |
| 14 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |