Example sentences of "be [verb] twice a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meeting took place under the guise of the 1987 Technology and Change Agreement whereby the Banks are to meet twice a year with the IBOA to discuss their future plans . |
| 2 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 3 | Visits to local chateaux and places of interest ( Saumur and Fontevraud ) are organized twice a week as part of the summer group vacation course , and a party and a disco evening are held during the course . |
| 4 | Every building has a shrine at which offerings must be placed twice a day . |
| 5 | For instance I have increased the skimmed milk allowance from 4 ounces to 10 ounces per day and I have allowed red meat to be included twice a week . |
| 6 | the property will be independently assessed by an accredited third-party organisation ; and once the BS rating has been achieved , the property will be assessed twice a year to ensure that standards are maintained . |
| 7 | But cows must be milked twice a day , every day of the year , so if you are a dairying smallholder you must find your recreation in the variations within the farm . |
| 8 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 9 | It meant a lot of hard work , dressings to be changed twice a day , support and stable bandages , plus massaging his legs to help circulation . |
| 10 | Summaries of the papers and news about adult education research will be circulated twice a year in a newsletter . |
| 11 | In fact only two liaison groups in England met regularly from the beginning of 1985 ; from September 1985 meetings were arranged twice a term for these two groups . |
| 12 | Letters were delivered twice a week only . |
| 13 | Linen is provided and the villa is cleaned twice a week . |
| 14 | Linen is changed weekly and the villa is cleaned twice a week . |
| 15 | The villa is cleaned twice a week and linen is changed weekly . |
| 16 | Linen is changed weekly and the villa is cleaned twice a week . |
| 17 | The DSM III ( American Psychiatric Association 1980 ) definition of nocturnal enuresis is bedwetting twice a month for children between the ages of 5 and 6 years . |
| 18 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
| 19 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 20 | The skylights in the galleries admit light through angled screens which are changed twice a year , at the equinoxes , and cut out direct rays to spread a diffuse illumination through the rooms . |
| 21 | PESC is chaired by a deputy secretary of the Treasury , and its three-year forecasts are published twice a year , under schedule 5 of the 1975 Industry Act . |
| 22 | These forecasts , which are made by Treasury economists , are published twice a year , under Schedule 5 of the 1975 Industry Act . |
| 23 | Three-day courses for small groups of senior managers and directors and also their partners are held twice a month at Leeds Castle near Maidstone and Ripley Castle near Harrogate . |
| 24 | Regattas are held twice a year with full consultation with FPA . |
| 25 | The big dyeing job was done twice a year at the hairdresser 's , but every month or so in between , Mrs Wormwood used to freshen it up by giving it a rinse in the washbasin with something called PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG . |
| 26 | From his response to the huge volume of encrypted data that Coleman was sending twice a week to his DIA number in Maryland , Donleavy was interested in his reports , not just for their own sake , but as a means of cross-checking the official inter-agency pooling of information by the DEA and CIA . |
| 27 | In common with most of his contemporaries paying such rates , he was charged twice a year from 1783 onwards at a penny a time , though even he was excused in 1784 on grounds of poverty . |
| 28 | Milk was delivered twice a day , and bread daily . |
| 29 | The ordeal , which lasted all of twenty minutes , was repeated twice a day ; a high price , thought Joshua , for having to listen to Bill Cash warn of the dangers of Europe . |