Example sentences of "once [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’
2 When his sister emigrated to Israel , the Movement introduced a visitor who called in once or twice every week .
3 Ah , but it 's y you still see it , I mean we still see it about once or twice every week .
4 Dr Mohammed said this might happen no more than once or twice every year depending how often people died .
5 The family were able to visit him once or twice a week .
6 Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year …
7 We go once or twice a day now .
8 McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said .
9 When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often .
10 We cross the border once or twice a week .
11 At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less .
12 Have poultry once or twice a week .
13 Join an evening yoga class ( once a week ) ; do aerobics once or twice a week , plus a thirty-minute walk three times a week .
14 Zuwaya made peace about once or twice a month .
15 Another 17-year-old girl kept up a regular correspondence with her natural mother and went to see her once or twice a year referring to her as an ‘ auntie ’ .
16 The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day .
17 However , to maintain this amended behaviour pattern , it may be necessary to repeat this training once or twice a week to ensure that it is permanently reinforced .
18 This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week .
19 If there is no other system of air-conditioning , and the window can not be open all the time because of draughts or security , it should at least be opened once or twice a day for a spell .
20 I have a small horse which I show jump once or twice a week .
21 He is ridden up and down the hills at home and , when the weather is reasonable , taken for gallops once or twice a week .
22 The WRVS are also looking for additional meals on wheels drivers , for just a couple of hours once or twice a month .
23 You can then reduce the skin brushing to two or three times a week and the massage to once or twice a week .
24 Important : This relaxation exercise is most beneficial if practised once or twice a day on an empty stomach , or at least an hour after eating .
25 I thought , as most people probably think once or twice a year , that I should never be the same person again .
26 I thought of the hundreds of others of us who said something like that once or twice a week .
27 In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose .
28 In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans .
29 Coleman , in a letter of 17 February , proposed that an infirmary should be prepared in part of the Woolwich stables , where he could attend once or twice a week .
30 Many couples continue to enjoy sexual intercourse once or twice a week into old age , but some people have neither the inclination or ability for this , and of course in a long relationship we do adjust to our partner 's needs .
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