Example sentences of "five [noun pl] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can do it , and if you do , I do n't know , say five calls a day , let us say because I 'm not making any rules , erm , if you could six calls day , without any doubt it would increase your sales by twenty percent , it 'd be good that . |
| 2 | In fact , Ninagawa takes just one month to direct a production and rehearses only five hours a day . |
| 3 | Dustin had to suffer under a fourteen-piece latex mask , which took five hours a day to apply under the hot , steaming make-up lamps . |
| 4 | That October , when the M's cattle were brought in , it meant that Mrs M had to spend up to five hours a day working with them as Mr M was away teaching for much of the time . |
| 5 | In some cases , the accompanying wall texts give details of the sittings : , the model for Euan Uglow 's ‘ Zagi ’ ( 1981–2 ) sat for five hours a day , five or six days a week , during a period from Easter 1981 to Easter 1982 . |
| 6 | Winston Churchill , when he was a young officer in India , read for four or five hours a day , developing his knowledge and love of English . |
| 7 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 8 | Then , Sabraxis would make the individual concerned practise with her five hours a day for a week . |
| 9 | We were all getting fed up with it cos , having to stay on the gate five hours a day you know , three or four times a week . |
| 10 | Now they 'll train five hours a day at the rink which just a few months ago was forced to close . |
| 11 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 12 | By dedicating at least five minutes a day to thinking through his use of time , the Profitboss manages to get his priorities right . |
| 13 | The staff listed consists only of the chancellor , one of the greatest of the royal officers , whose wages were five shillings a day , the master of the writing-office , who originally had tenpence a day , but Robert de Sigillo had made himself so indispensable that he had risen into the two shilling class , and the chaplain in charge of the chapel and relics . |
| 14 | You can also filter four or five times a day . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’ |
| 16 | NOAA-7 covers Japan 's 200-mile ( 370-km ) fishing zone five times a day . |
| 17 | Sometimes after their formal prayers , which were said a minimum of five times a day , they continued to sit with their feet in front of them while they carried on long conversations with God . |
| 18 | ‘ I telephoned the Blackpool office up to five times a day and never talked to the same person twice . |
| 19 | We may realise that a Muslim needs a place to roll out his prayer mat five times a day . |
| 20 | It is important to find time for relaxation and generally winding down but also it may be helpful to ‘ rebreathe ’ four or five times a day to counteract any blowing off of carbon dioxide which may have occurred . |
| 21 | In fact it became much worse as Diana would make herself sick four , sometimes five times a day . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , in an inner district of Istanbul , I can hear drunks arguing in the alleys of brothels , and the mosques chanting Ezan mournfully five times a day . |
| 23 | I do the toilets four or five times a day . |
| 24 | ‘ A good Muslim , ’ said Dr Ali , ‘ should pray five times a day . |
| 25 | Although they had started , at the beginning of term , to pray five times a day , it was already down to two sessions . |
| 26 | These contractions occur infrequently , between four and five times a day , so that their recognition needs prolonged periods of intraluminal monitoring . |
| 27 | ‘ They went out for walks up to five times a day and he spoiled Champ rotten . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been told the players pray five times a day — even if it means interrupting training ! |
| 29 | P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has five sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Zeebrugge : crossing time four and a half hours . |
| 30 | Dunkirk Ferries : Sally ( 0843 595522 ) operates five sailings a day from Ramsgate to Dunkirk : crossing time is two hours , 30 minutes . |