Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] once a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These might be to : ‘ go swimming for thirty minutes after work once a week ’ , ‘ use the stairs rather than the lift ’ , ‘ walk to the restaurant instead of driving ’ . |
| 2 | These boys and girls at Wood Green school in Witney stayed behind after school once a week for the eighteen hour course . |
| 3 | It was almost three o'clock when Christina left Pauline after agreeing to meet for lunch once a week . |
| 4 | Art could not speak , he had become so used to meeting Daphne for lunch once a week , it was part of his life , he felt shocked , strange , bereft . |
| 5 | The signatories agreed to exercise " voluntary self-restraint " in the use of force once a Supreme National Council ( SNC ) of prominent Cambodians had been formed . |
| 6 | A walk before breakfast every day or exercise done after work every day — say a fifteen-minute run , a game of tennis or another walk — is very much better for you than a game of rugby once a week and nothing else . |
| 7 | Beryl 's love of movement and dance started at a very early age when she and her older sisters attended a local School of Dance once a week . |
| 8 | Bicycles can be hired free of charge once a week and tennis is free for 1 hour per week . |
| 9 | You will also be asked to sign a Certificate of Deduction of Tax once a year confirming that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 10 | Expect your appetite to get out of control once a month or so : if you predict it , you can cope with it more readily . |
| 11 | She is generally continent but may be incontinent of urine once a week . |
| 12 | But I would have thought you could have got away with banking once a week . |
| 13 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 14 | I did n't used to like going to college once a week . |
| 15 | We go out in the day together , we try to go to town once a week , and every Sunday we go to my aunty 's house . |
| 16 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 17 | During that time I held honorary NHS senior registrar status and , to maintain my clinical skills , was on call once a week as a resident registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology and did a full day 's operating list once every two weeks . |
| 18 | Meadows would be cut for hay once a year , and pastures would be grazed and never ploughed , planted or plied with artificial fertilisers and pesticides . |
| 19 | Preston was familiar with the works of St Augustine , or , at least , more familiar than the majority of seven-year-olds , from the teaching of Mother Bernard to whom he went for catechism once a week . |
| 20 | A past employer of mine used to give himself a gourmet week at home once a year . |
| 21 | Such small firms will be required to account for VAT once a year , and then only on bills actually paid . |
| 22 | They enjoy being at home together : she attends keep-fit classes and meets her former colleagues for coffee once a fortnight , while Tom spends more time on gardening and playing whist . |