Example sentences of "once every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 2 | Your tank , despite its length , holds only 240 litres , which should be turned over once every hour . |
| 3 | For the planted aquarium the total tank volume should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and filtered gently , with no spraybars , aeration , or jetting effect . |
| 4 | Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence . |
| 5 | CURRENT fashion in British gardening is illustrated among the gardens from 30 nations exhibited at the Floriade at The Hague , the dazzling horticulture show held in Holland only once every decade , which was opened by Queen Beatrix yesterday and will run for seven months . |
| 6 | Floriade ( at Zoetermeer until October 11 ) is an international festival of gardening held in The Netherlands only once every decade , when every aspect of the world of horticulture is on display to amuse , inform , surprise and delight . |
| 7 | The El Nino is a massive surge of warm water that , once every decade or so , builds up in the eastern Pacific along the South American seaboard . |
| 8 | This happens maybe once every couple of months but recently , every couple of weeks , he trots off on his own . |
| 9 | It may happen once every couple of weeks , or four times a day . |
| 10 | it gets a bit yeah , which is why I 'm gon na stick with two , I mean now they want to go and see Peter Pan next , when that comes down which will be what probably a month , about once every couple of months they 'll go or once a month |
| 11 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 12 | He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net . |
| 13 | A group of , say , four machines gives you a pretty good chance of hitting where you want at least once every turn . |
| 14 | a ‘ statistically average ’ person aged 16 or over can expect : a robbery once every five centuries ( not attempts ) , an assault resulting in injury ( even if slight ) once every century , the family car to be taken by joyriders once every 60 years , a burglary in the home once every 40 years . |
| 15 | They estimate that extremely high sea levels , which historically occur roughly once every century , could be expected more than once every five years in many seaside towns by 2030 . |
| 16 | That map will be reviewed , as it is once every Parliament , at the beginning of the next Parliament . |
| 17 | The Canterbury spar is raked over occasionally to break up any ‘ dead spots ’ in the filter and surface mulm is syphoned off once every fortnight . |
| 18 | And erm how , how do you , do you do your shopping , do you do it once every fortnight , or do you ? |
| 19 | There is currently no rolling settlements system and all trades are settled once every fortnight . |
| 20 | one a month or once every fortnight |
| 21 | Yet another method was to harness the fish , with a thin silk cord that unwound over a large pulley , actuating an electric relay once every revolution . |
| 22 | Two acting notes for Frank : Less is more — do not shift your eyes at the audience so much , stare them down once every scene ; when in doubt about what to say next do not keep ad-libbing about Harry . |
| 23 | The hypnosis session over , I suggested to Joyce that she should run through exactly the same set of images at least once every day for the next two weeks . |
| 24 | The steroid treatment was continued , with 30 mg prednison orally once every day . |
| 25 | As a result , as the Earth goes around the sun once every year , its two hemispheres alternate between receiving the sun 's rays more directly ( in summer ) or obliquely ( in winter ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember , once every year , the town would explode with music when this plainchant thing would come to Wexford . |
| 27 | The lord had to employ labourers to chop the growth back once every year ; the same men were to fill in large holes and ruts in the highway with stones and boulders removed from flanking fields . |
| 28 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State will understand why there is reluctance to change a system that has served us well and to reduce the frequency of inspections from once every year to once every four years . |
| 30 | Same Time , Next Year is a lively , humorous account of a developing relationship , at first sexual but later broadening into a touching tenderness , of two people long married to others , who meet once every year in a California motel for what used to be called ‘ a dirty weekend ’ . |