Example sentences of "[prep] least [art] [adj] times " in BNC.
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1 | By 1958 , both the United States and the Soviet Union had carried out test explosions with single bombs at least a thousand times more deadly . |
2 | For example , polonium-210 concentrates at least a thousand times in fresh fish and more in shellfish . |
3 | In fact the possession of a high work of fracture — at least a thousand times higher than the free surface energy — is an essential characteristic of all safe and practical structural materials which are used in tension . |
4 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
5 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
6 | You 're being silly , she told herself ; a man as attractive as Luke Denner would be bound to have many women in his life , any number of girlfriends ; had n't she schooled herself into thinking this at least a hundred times — ever since that very first meeting , ever since he had dragged her unceremoniously into that small , chaste bedroom , ever since he had made love to her ? |
7 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
8 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
9 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
10 | The previous day , she had demanded halts at least a dozen times , claiming they were being followed by something in the undergrowth , to the left of their narrow path . |
11 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |