Example sentences of "at least once a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | At four , three-quarters of all children were smacked at least once a week and only 3 per cent were never smacked . |
| 2 | By the age of seven , more than half the boys and nearly a third of the girls were being hit at least once a week . |
| 3 | But 18 per cent were still being struck at least once a week . |
| 4 | Among those with a criminal record at 20 , some 73 per cent had been smacked or beaten at least once a week when aged seven and 40 per cent when they were 11 . |
| 5 | An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny . |
| 6 | From then until the middle of August , there were incidents at least once a week . |
| 7 | Many said they were regularly bullied — 8 per cent of secondary pupils at least once a week and 5.5 per cent of middle school pupils several times a week . |
| 8 | If you have liver or a generous portion of a soya product at least once a week this will help . |
| 9 | Mr and Mrs Popple always argued at least once a week . |
| 10 | Mr and Mrs Popple always argued at least once a week . |
| 11 | There is of course a fine line between ‘ direct support ’ and ‘ regular monitoring ’ but the main distinction is that people in the previous category were visited at least once a week to give support or help , whereas people in the ‘ monitoring only ’ category were visited about once a fortnight or once a month so that the development officer could ‘ see how things were going ’ . |
| 12 | All your licensed premises on your area had to be checked at least once a week ( in uniform ) and the sergeant would pick you up and take you visiting these various posts , and I used to take a glass of beer . |
| 13 | Accumulation of dirt and refuse , often a source of odour nuisance , must be removed from floors daily and at least once a week floors must be cleaned . |
| 14 | Book your table for dinner on the diner which runs at least once a week from spring to autumn . |
| 15 | Mind you , he does n't smell — he must have got somewhere he can go for a bath at least once a week . |
| 16 | She started hiding food away instead of eating it so as not to put on any weight , but hunger forced her to have a good meal at least once a week . |
| 17 | Eva would drink champagne and watch television in bed , which shocked me , and at least once a week she said she was determined to take us all to London for good . |
| 18 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 19 | Do you play an active sport at least once a week ? |
| 20 | Wenger ( 1984 , p. 91 ) found that more than half the childless old people in her study of rural Wales saw a relative , a sibling , niece , nephew or cousin at least once a week , though in inner city London there were more isolated old people ( Sinclair et al . , |
| 21 | ( 1982 ) found that a quarter of normal 3-year-olds are still wetting in the day at least once a week but that this rapidly reduces to 8 per cent at 4 years and 2 per cent at 8 years . |
| 22 | Rachel would drive from the flat she shared with Andre in Balham , South London , to visit her parents at Ampthill , Beds , at least once a week . |
| 23 | Neither dirt nor refuse must be allowed to accumulate , and all floors and stairs shall be cleaned at least once a week . |
| 24 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 25 | This dissatisfaction may be reflected in the finding that almost 40% of all the men in our sample masturbate at least once a week and only 1 in 5 says that he never does so . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're almost exactly the same age — his birthday is six months after mine — and we see each other at least once a week for lunch . |
| 27 | Some people may not want to send Christmas cards or eat meat at least once a week ( two of Townsend 's indicators of conventional British life ) : the implication is that Townsend grossly exaggerates the incidence of poverty because he ignores the fact that people may choose to do without such things . |
| 28 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 29 | If they had not been in the habit of seeing each other so often , at least once a week and sometimes more , talking on the phone every day , that appalling suggestion might have driven a bolt through their friendship , eventually destroying it . |
| 30 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |