Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] time a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the stock concept , at a point in time an investment project is profitable if the present value of net operating benefits the stream of future operating profits discounted at the interest rate at which firms must borrow funds — exceeds the initial purchase price of the new capital good . |
| 2 | Aim to collect over a period of time a variety of texts covering different types of oral literature , the formal and the informal , fiction and truth , narrative and exhortation , and so on . |
| 3 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 4 | A lot of times a lot of times it it it goes back to normal . |
| 5 | It may save you a lot of time a lot bother a lot of marks . |
| 6 | Even if he was , I ca n't see he could get that flush driving loads of irons and heaters up to Leeds and Scotland a couple of times a week . |
| 7 | The practice fence should be jumped slowly initially , then a couple of times a bit faster to get into cross country ‘ mood ’ and a couple of times on the angle so that the horse is awake and ready to think about the task ahead . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't really believe that eating a McDonald 's a couple of times a week , as I do , is bad for anybody , ’ said commercial director Lee Soden . |
| 9 | Beverley , 37 , of Leytonstone , East London , already played badminton and pounded the exercise bike a couple of times a week . |
| 10 | This typically British feast is okay a couple of times a week , but use your imagination when planning main meals . |
| 11 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 12 | Then there 's a lady over here who comes or used to come on a regular basis a couple of times a month she comes now a couple of times a year . |
| 13 | Then there 's a lady over here who comes or used to come on a regular basis a couple of times a month she comes now a couple of times a year . |
| 14 | A couple of times a month she has a drink with the women at work , which is the only time she goes out . |
| 15 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 16 | But I also have one of the largest training regiments in my constituency , and I see that unit erm in action a couple of times a year if if no more . |
| 17 | Prime Minister is normally here a couple of times a week to answer questions maybe the honourable gentleman will catch my eye one time very soon , he can put that to the Prime Minister himself . |
| 18 | Richard Miles led a quiet life … and used to go for a drink a couple of times a week with friends at the Kings Heads in the village of Eastington , about three miles from his home . |
| 19 | Erm how often do you play , oh once a week or a couple of times a week , what sort of standard is it and what it 's doing is you 've got an opportunity to sound off about yourself and that 's who we are talking about is n't it ? |
| 20 | I keep saying to him , look Colin , I said , I know a couple of times a week 's enough for me , but that 's worth waiting for , but when you 're doing it three times and then get sick of it . |
| 21 | This is an organization that listeners may not realize , which meets probably a couple of times a term , and which members of the university and people outside community meet , have some supper together , perhaps , and actually hear some talks , either from people inside the university or outside , about topics of current interest . |