Example sentences of "every [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hungary every 17th death and every 24th disability is attributed directly or indirectly to air pollution . |
| 2 | Because the lumen of the same crypt is visible within a maximal range of 50 µm , every 15th section was stained and counted to ensure that the same crypt was not counted twice . |
| 3 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 4 | North-easterners generally walk faster , give change faster , talk faster , and are more likely to wear watches so that they can make every second count . |
| 5 | Rodber looked raw while Cusani 's insistance on picking the ball up at every second scrum was one of the main reasons why the North 's centres never made much headway . |
| 6 | It was a shambles , gangs openly using drugs in the street , every second house boarded up . |
| 7 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 8 | This attitude was no longer conceivable to an American mind where the basic body silhouette was changing every second year . |
| 9 | It is never a bad plan , particularly with such plants as artemisias , penstemons or santolinas , to take cuttings at least every second year , thus ensuring that you have plenty of replacement stock on the way . |
| 10 | But even then , there are massive periodic bills that come round every second generation — a major roof repair , a bit of bad luck like serious dry rot . |
| 11 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 12 | For I assure you that people who do not travel ( I mean those who cultivate the arts and learning ) are indeed miserable creatures ; and I protest that unless the Archbishop allows me to travel every second year , I ca n't possibly accept the engagement . |
| 13 | The natives are simply running wild and ploughing up large areas of land every second year . |
| 14 | It 's also a good idea to back off three to five per cent every second or third week to give yourself more rest and sufficient recovery . |
| 15 | Previously , the Romans had tried to bring their civil calendar , which like many ancient calendars was based on the moon , into line with the astronomical year based on the sun by adopting a system involving an additional or intercalary month every second year . |
| 16 | Indeed every second customer is probably just like me , but the charade is going to be played out on the basis that I am being difficult . |
| 17 | Lola Hahn-Warburg could call on the services of a neurologist ‘ who is at our disposal every second Thursday for a whole afternoon ’ , a psychologist and two psychiatric workers . |
| 18 | Every second day , food and medicine were delivered from Zacco and , strictly watched , the doctor was allowed to speak with the courier who came with the convoy . |
| 19 | To the movie-goers of the late '20s and '30s , the gangly , open-mouthed black , whose every second line appeared to be ‘ Yes , Massa ’ , epitomised his race . |
| 20 | He used the toilet-bucket carefully , so as not to soil the floor , and was grateful it was removed every second day . |
| 21 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |
| 22 | Dressed for easy recognition in white blancoed webbing , with clean ( at the start ) faces , and with every second man carrying a blue-lensed pencil-beamed torch , the assault parties dropped their scaling-ladders over the bow and plunged ashore . |
| 23 | Making every second count — not only in fire protection but also in contract performance . |
| 24 | You must be sure to have an even number of needles on the ribber bed , since the carriage selects every second needle . |
| 25 | NOWADAYS WE say ‘ not ! ’ and ‘ way ! ’ all the time , but in the mid-'70s the only funny programme on TV was Monty Python 's Flying Circus and so every second feature was headlined ‘ This Parrot Deceased ’ or ‘ Too Silly ’ or similar . |
| 26 | Knock ! jokes are okay in small doses — like one every second leap year . |
| 27 | After every second teaching unit there is further revision and extension . |
| 28 | Each of the three levels of WOW ! has special revision sections built in after every second unit . |
| 29 | It is ironic that the hypocrite , who is seen throughout with a neurotic distrust of women , and whose every second word to his wife is an insult , should finally be exposed by a woman he had trusted , from whom he had snatched the handkerchief without even thinking her worth swearing to secrecy ( III.iii.320ff . ) . |
| 30 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |