Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [art] week " in BNC.
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1 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
2 | Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms . |
3 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
4 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
5 | Can anyone recommend somebody who would like a few hours a week domestic cleaning ( and maybe occasional catering work ? ) |
6 | With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week . |
7 | Even if you only work for a few hours a week , take out professional indemnity insurance . |
8 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
9 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |
10 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
11 | It 's a good idea to run your central heating pump for a few minutes a week in summer to prevent it from seizing up when the system is not in use . |
12 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
13 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
14 | a few times a week and I think it sounded like three cos she was wondering how he would cope with driving and everything . |
15 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
16 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
17 | Six kids , Dad on a few shillings a week , when he was out of work , Mam had to go out scrubbing , washing . |
18 | Other regular earnings , for example , from a second job a few evenings a week |
19 | we know , from research even amongst very young girls who only smoke a few cigarettes a week , that when they try to give up they get withdrawal symptoms , and so having a cigarette erm helps them |
20 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
21 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
22 | She comes into the capital a few nights a week , moonlighting from her day job , which is being a seamstress . |
23 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
24 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
25 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
26 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |
27 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |
28 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
29 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
30 | The new row follows uproar over Janet Sainsbury 's appointment at £11,720 a year for two and a half days a week , as chairman of South Glamorgan Family Health Authority . |