Example sentences of "on two [noun] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital .
2 Daedalus expects that his under-pressured volunteers will lose appetite and be quite happy on two meals a day , especially if he provides airline food .
3 BILL BRYSON [ Sweden on Two Herrings a Day , page 67 ] enhances this happier mood with an account of a recent journey to Sweden , retracing the steps he first took as a monoglot student twenty years earlier .
4 Sweden on two herrings a day
5 For some years the local authority sent boxes of books which were changed monthly and which were distributed by volunteers from their homes or village halls on two evenings a week .
6 Fresh fruit ( instead of biscuit or two squares of chocolate ) at the end of lunch on two days a week .
7 Joint funding by the Welsh Office and Gwent Health Authority provides a day hospital on two days a week and a day centre , run by volunteers , on three days a week ; the day centre has about 90 clients a week .
8 On two days a week he peddled art and printing materials around the country and , for the rest , he was nominally in charge of his father 's printing works .
9 Indeed on two occasions a teacher accepted the question without comment while another in the same school mentioned the extreme dangers of its use .
10 But it only strikes on two babies a year , two babies in England
11 The tenant has , of course , to undertake to open certain rooms and the garden to visitors on two afternoons a week , also to groups by appointment and occasionally to entertain for the Trust .
12 Having control of her own workload and organising herself to take work home on two afternoons a week helped Marian to achieve the necessary balance between conflicting domestic and professional pressures .
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