Example sentences of "one [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 They never come round on their own , and you you see them in the daytime , you know probably one or twice a week .
2 As the dusk came down the bats came out and the song of birds ceased one by one until only a lone blackbird spoke occasionally from the shadows .
3 Not , however , a balanced diet made up of a bit of one and then a bit of the other , but an integration between the two .
4 We were taken out one by one and always a soldier stood behind , the barrel of his gun shoved between the prisoner 's shoulder blades .
5 There was a lady in a hat , only one but quite a one .
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