Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For historic reasons the infant baptism figure most accurately represents the ‘ external constituency ’ of the Church of England , that is , those who are favourably disposed , but most of whom do not bother to attend . |
| 2 | Sort of three pounds for a couple of little , little pairs of knickers and that and that 's a lot when you think they when she first starts she 's gon na be getting through seven or eight pairs a day . |
| 3 | It is estimated that at least 10,000 children and their parents are involved in the trauma of accidental poisonings every year . |
| 4 | Tousle-haired Roy Greenwood played three or four games for the Palace as an amateur in October 1954 , but was immediately invited to sign professional forms a month later . |
| 5 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 6 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 7 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 8 | The windows covering the detectors had to withstand decelerations of over 500 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth . |
| 9 | We squat on the ground , eating our lunch as we go , and work as fast as we can for eleven hours every day . |
| 10 | Addition ( 1974 ) : Churning out the same stuff gives one that sick , ecky feeling in the head and I think in advanced cases the feeling is counter corrected in the head to one of numbed atrophy which is shown in those people who find it impossible to let thought in conversation run fluidly-fluently but must talk tensely about weather , colour of curtains , ailments , grouses . |
| 11 | Will we see women working on check out tills being sacked because they can not keep a smile screwed on to their faces for eight hours every day ? |
| 12 | But we do spend an average of eight hours every day of our lives with our mouths and noses pressed against pillows full of the mite dung … ‘ |
| 13 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 14 | For the next 35 years , almost without a break , Asimov produced 90 words a minute , eight hours a day , seven days a week , first on a typewriter and later on a word processor , and he invariably wrote three books at once . |
| 15 | Removing the supports of these state agencies — the welfare net , subsidized public services — would face people with a ‘ reality test ’ : that if you do n't sweep floors eight hours a day , you wo n't have any money to live on . |
| 16 | They represent acceptable exposure levels based on eight hours a day for five days a week . |
| 17 | The power available from the hydroelectric station will be at least 800 MW , eight hours a day for the first 20 years , thereafter falling by about 30 per cent . |
| 18 | I now leave the lights on for eight hours a day . |
| 19 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 20 | And , according to the Nihon Keizai Simbun , the semi-public TV network NHK has been running HDTV broadcasts eight hours a day on a test basis since last year . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the electric fireplace which the American public watches an average of six to eight hours a day ’ . |
| 22 | The Manila stockmarket is at an all-time high ; yet electricity power-cuts in the country last an average of eight hours a day . |
| 23 | Unlike many of their colleagues in the public sector general practitioners in the Conceicao programme work for the full contracted eight hours a day . |
| 24 | Er I offered it for about eight hours a day , but they might send us somebody might . |
| 25 | Those who were miners worked a three-shift system — eight hours a day , six days a week . |
| 26 | From the sowing date onwards the plants remain in a controlled environment , with temperature 20°C , humidity constant and warm-white lighting at an intensity of about 40 Wm -2 for eight hours a day , darkness sixteen hours a day . |
| 27 | Rather than spend eight hours a day gathering firewood , they will conserve fuel by cooking less frequently or more communally . |
| 28 | These developments could open up new vistas of flexible working for large numbers of employees , who no longer need to be herded together in downtown locations for eight hours a day . |
| 29 | It should be stressed that in the first period , when the plaintiff was at Addenbrookes hospital , that is from June nineteen eighty seven to May nineteen eighty eight , at least one parent was in attendance for eight hours a day . |
| 30 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |