Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 2 | But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still . |
| 3 | He said ‘ I did n't say it was right ’ he said , ‘ I said that is what they perceived ’ and he turned to the person next to him afterwards , he says ‘ well , that 's finished me for any promotion a job for promotion ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew someone of that name a long time ago . |
| 5 | So , they 've hired you for thirty pence a mile to do their roadwork for them . |
| 6 | Question : Which piece of equipment works for you for 365 days a year , 24 hours a day , saves you money , protects your reputation , helps you comply with the law , and is expected to function without complaint for up to 10 years ? |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll only require you for one hour a day . |
| 8 | When a manager walks in with none of these things a record company is being asked to use a lot of imagination . |
| 9 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 10 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 11 | ‘ No worries , I 'll start you on thirty quid a week . |
| 12 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 13 | they expect me to pay another three hundred pounds a month out of seven hundred and twenty pounds net income , leaving me with twenty pounds a month to live on . |
| 14 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 15 | And they said something about this woman a neighbour said oh where the hell 's Jimmy or something today ? |
| 16 | They dealt with something like 5000 letters a week and interviewed up to 500 petitioners on behalf of children still in Germany . |
| 17 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |
| 18 | Well , twenty six I think it 's something like is n't it something like two pounds a gallon now ? |
| 19 | It was , it was two it was something like two percent a month . |
| 20 | But obviously in a recessionary period , which we are certainly not out of yet , you have to remember that Alton Towers has a per cap of something like fourteen pounds a head at the moment , er , average of all people . |
| 21 | Addison Wesley our American college publisher as Michael mentioned th at the half-way stage their sales were eleven percent ahead of er , last year , and you may remember last year they had record sales and record profits and er they 're forecasting er something like fourteen percent a head by the year end in sales terms and they are expecting to maintain their their margins and last year was a very good margin indeed . |
| 22 | He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) . |
| 23 | I mean they 're they 're s they were something like twelve quid a pair . |
| 24 | A lot of countries do n't have control over their own economies , they do n't have control over things like whether of not people are going to have jobs , whether or not people are going to make a livelihood , whether or not people are going to even be able to live in the country , because in Ireland something like 1000 people a week are leaving the country in order to get work . |
| 25 | Parents come on an observation day first , then accompany their children for one to two hours a day , five days a week . |
| 26 | All prospective CAB voluntary advice workers will be told that they may be required to make a commitment of one to two days a week to a bureau as well as six sessions a year of in-service training after their basic training . |
| 27 | Luckily I only see him one to three times a year — when I need money usually . |
| 28 | However after one to three years a signal , possibly hormonal , causes them to don the silvery camouflage of sea fish . |
| 29 | Makes me in tiny rooms a living part |
| 30 | I mean it seems to me in those cases a secret ballot is highly desirable and coercion would be more of a danger than people voting er from the mo wrong moral motivation . |