Example sentences of "[adj] time [pos pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Heavy runners count as those weighing , in pounds , more than 2.25 times their height in inches ( men ) or two times ( women ) . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 10 | So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’ |
| 11 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
| 12 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 13 | But at some times your dilemma as a manager you say think well can he just stay on and nick us a goal knowing full well that if if he has he comes off it makes them fairly lightweight . |
| 14 | A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other … |
| 15 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 16 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
| 17 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
| 18 | A rather larger star — one of mass greater than about 1.2–1.4 times our Sun 's — can not contract in such a controlled way . |
| 19 | The average American throws away at least 12 times their body weight in domestic waste each year . |
| 20 | Johnson & Johnson in Canada is currently making sanitary towels out of the stuff ( peat moss soaks up 12 times its own weight of liquid ) . |
| 21 | At half time his heart and his stress indicators all seemed fine . |
| 22 | This time its offerings include a dead shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde . |
| 23 | In October it demanded to know what had happened to the seventy-acre industrial site and the industrial training centre promised by Faulkner and Minister of Development William Craig , and in February 1966 the DUAC lobbied the House of Commons at Westminster , led by Finbar O'Doherty , who was at this time its London representative . |
| 24 | This time its Holybourne ; last year Anstey Lane made the front page . |
| 25 | For the pulsar to move 18' from the apparent centre of the SNR in this time its proper motion would have to be 0.06 yr -1 . |
| 26 | Distantly he heard the report of another gun and felt the impact of other bullets shudder the bull 's body , but by this time its heavy black bulk was already sinking down upon him , lifeless from his own second shot . |
| 27 | I am just writing to note that yet another transport consultation paper has turned up on my desk — this time its on the ‘ proposed legislative response to recommendations in noise review report ’ . |
| 28 | This time its congratulations to Matthew and Dorothy on the birth of Tobias Matthew , a brother for Rosie . |
| 29 | This column has already reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and now it gives me pleasure to report another addition at the Dodge Chemical Company — but this time its not another birth , it is the news that Adrian Haler 's daughter , Patricia Lewis joined the company on August 17th . |
| 30 | It had always proved a solace for past unhappiness , but this time its charm had n't worked . |