Example sentences of "one [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme involved ten patrons paying one ducat a month ( roughly 600 gulden per year ) . |
| 2 | In one instance a contract was made to sell to one purchaser a quantity of a given type of wine which exactly equalled the seller 's stock of it . |
| 3 | In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her . |
| 4 | Cases of wounding by pistol shots occasionally came before the courts and in at least one instance a child was killed , although apparently by accident , which nevertheless brought great notoriety to the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell Pistol Gang ’ . |
| 5 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 6 | So the sum has to be one , times a half , is greater than two , which it clearly is n't , cos one times a half is a half , and that is less than two . |
| 7 | . Let's write it slightly differently , let's write it as A add B add minus one times A minus B. Are you happy with that ? |
| 8 | Now a minus one times a minus three ? |
| 9 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 10 | In spite of all precautions , one afternoon a column got into the hut through a hole in the wall at the back . |
| 11 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 12 | I got one evening off … and one afternoon a month ’ ( Lewis and Meredith , 1988 , p. 83 ) . |
| 13 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 14 | One afternoon a week , I went to do some work at the Child Guidance Clinic , and Mavis looked after Shanti on these days . |
| 15 | Under the auspices of the Pre-school Group for Parents and Children , the children and their parents enjoy a variety of activities one afternoon a week at Liphook Infant School . |
| 16 | Can you plan one afternoon a week just to enjoy yourself ? |
| 17 | One afternoon a week he received tuition from Minton whom he first saw seated on a windowsill , hugging his legs and looking as young as some of the students he taught . |
| 18 | After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop . |
| 19 | They send lecturers to the plant one afternoon a week to teach . |
| 20 | This enables our employees to use the equivalent of one afternoon a week during working hours , for approved community activities , always of course , subject to workload . |
| 21 | I used to play for the Darlington Deanery Choir one afternoon a week . |
| 22 | By supplementary help we refer to cases where either support worker help was provided temporarily , to relieve in unusual circumstances , or support workers were employed with a client on average no more than one hour a day , seven days a week . |
| 23 | In response , a growing body of clergy and laity , on both sides of the Atlantic , are committing themselves to dedicate at least one hour a day to prayer for the renewal and growth of the Church and for the transformation of society . |
| 24 | For one hour a day , each rat could control this current by means of a lever in its cage . |
| 25 | Do n't be afraid to limit the time spent with your language helper to one hour a day at first . |
| 26 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 27 | The meeting also decided that the international francophone television channel , TV 5 , should from 1992 be broadcast to Africa for one hour a day . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'll only require you for one hour a day . |
| 29 | No fee but all expenses paid for a teacher working three hours a day or a half price holiday if working one hour a day . |
| 30 | Well , a little thing like that should not be allowed to stand in the way of such a great man , so Mr Pozsgay now spends one hour a week in the gym . |