Example sentences of "[adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 2 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 3 | In normal times there is a steady movement of pilots up from small air taxi operations through turboprop commuter aircraft of the major airlines . |
| 4 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 5 | Trees such as poplars , elms , limes and oaks account for much shrinkage in soil and should not be closer to the building than 1.5 times their own height . |
| 6 | Heavy runners count as those weighing , in pounds , more than 2.25 times their height in inches ( men ) or two times ( women ) . |
| 7 | We should not only lose , against eight times our numbers , but we might well tempt the Forteviot garrison to come out and rescue us , and the fort would be taken . ’ |
| 8 | It 's about eight times he 's taken himself out . |
| 9 | After that , of course , Tuathal had had to drop his attack and race to be first over the river , since he could not face eight times his number in the open plain between the Glen and the crossing . |
| 10 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |
| 11 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 12 | ‘ Strange times we live in . ’ |
| 13 | Strange times we live in , he said , when he finds himself looking over his shoulder and thinking he might be safer in Sarajevo . |
| 14 | A wily merchant had asked fifty times their worth , and had been left gaping when one thousand times their worth had been pressed into his hands . |
| 15 | Given the turbulent times which still afflict the industry , this is a remarkable achievement . |
| 16 | Folivores ( leaf-eaters ) may satisfy their sodium requirement only by consuming soil or water plants , while animals like litter-feeding cockroaches in Amazonia would need to consume 30–40 times their energy requirement of litter to satisfy their phosphorus needs : in fact they eat dead animals as well . |
| 17 | All children have fads at different times which resolve as quickly as they arrive and so it can be difficult for parents to determine where they should start to draw the line . |
| 18 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 19 | Yet to characterise the development in this fashion is too simplistic since at different times there have been offshoots , modifications and borrowings from different countries and even within them . |
| 20 | In some places and at different times there was some resistance , at Lincoln at the end of the fourteenth century and at Southampton , where the mayor from 1488 to 1491 made an unsuccessful attempt to preserve some semblance of democracy ( 77 , pp.259–61 ) . |
| 21 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 22 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 23 | At different times he published works by Sarah Fielding , Charlotte Lennox , Susanna Centlivre , Eliza Haywood , Elizabeth Carter , and Mary Barber , as well as others . |
| 24 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
| 25 | Used to have to eat all sorts of things at different times I used to try and eat apples as opposed to , you know , sort of , something fairly healthy but |
| 26 | It is nonetheless evident from her poetry that at different times she was visited by aspiring poets and dramatists . |
| 27 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 28 | The return of women to the homefront to live in varying degrees of poverty has been paralleled by an intensification of family-centred propaganda to remind us that women are the ‘ natural ’ homemakers , and that in difficult and unsettled times our prime responsibility is to make sure that our men and our children and our dependent relatives are properly cared for . |
| 29 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 30 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |