usual allowance

She has also more than the usual allowance of tongue.

Russian officers expected to be in Berlin about the same time; six weeks was the usual allowance.

They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.

This is the only show allowed to carry long-form highlights (up to three minutes, twice as long as the usual allowance).

I got it, and dialed, and sat and listened to fourteen buzzes, two more than my usual allowance.

As well as all the usual allowances, you can bring home £265-worth of other goods from EC countries £32-worth from elsewhere.

When fed to lambs, it produces particularly tender meat (though the lambs need four times the usual allowance of water).

In a highly unorthodox move, two sessions of extra-time were played (the usual allowance would be a single session), the score remained goalless.

Gibson complied and Stanley used the letters to attempt to obtain from HM Treasury foreign currency above the usual allowance.

Occasionally it was practicable to get a quarter or a half ration of potatoes and half of the usual allowance of canned tomatoes, but that was all.

If there is any such who gets his usual allowance of sleep, I will warrant him to fatten easily under any circumstances which do not touch his body or purse.

Balding, middle-aged, tiny shifty eyes behind thick-lensed glasses, and a few more chins than the usual allowance, Glickman was slumped on a chair in front of his counter.

When the banknote is revealed, Loder declares that it exceeds the usual allowance for junior boys and that he will hand it to Prout for safe-keeping.

They had eaten the last of the dolphin the night before, and at sunrise a quarter of a pint of water and our usual allowance of bread were issued.

Corrodies and chantries were granted to several persons, manors and churches were let out to farm, and in the year 1294 the usual allowance for one canon was made to serve for two.

For apéritifs, Mr. Creosote has six bottles of Château Latour 1945, a double jeroboam of champagne, and half a dozen crates of brown ale - considerably less than his usual allowance.

The naval and civilian sailors worked well together, though there was disquiet when it was discovered that the civilians' pay was doubled during time spent in the war zone while the RAN personnel received only the usual allowances.

Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet Foreign Minister and author of "The Future Belongs to Freedom," was given 10 minutes by ABC, twice the usual allowance, for a sober discussion with Charles Gibson about the Soviet Union's problematic future.

Our dinner was the usual allowance: one twenty-fifth of a pound of bread, and a half pint of water - for Mr. Bligh was not the man to relax his vigilance until assured that the need for vigilance was past; but the bird we had caught the night before was divided in the customary manner.