Example sentences of "of [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with any technique , direct mail has basic principles which must be obeyed if the programme is to communicate and raise money over a long period : * It must be regular ( a minimum of eight times a year ) * It must be personal , relevant and informal * It must be good quality * It must ask for and offer something * It must appeal to emotion first and reason second |
| 2 | The pilot results were promising and showed that the POI systems were used an average of eight times an hour . |
| 3 | They established that 6 copyholds changed hands a total of 36 times and 21 freeholds changed ownership a total of 118 times . |
| 4 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 5 | Extremely luminous water-vapour masers of 100 times the luminosity of the Sun , L and ; ( ref. 3 ) , have been detected within 1parsec ( 3x10 18 cm ) of its nucleus . |
| 6 | Polycrystalline silicone cells , which are 12 per cent efficient , are also used in solar panels for other applications , as are amorphous silicone and hydrogen and according to American manufacture Solarex , has a potential of 100 times the absorption of other crystalline types . |
| 7 | The change in elastic modulus between the two states is similar for both these materials and is of the order of 100 times , or more . |
| 8 | An improvement of 100 times in the information content of existing techniques would allow the absorption coefficient of a transverse slice of an object to be calculated to an accuracy of 0·5 per cent . |
| 9 | Members of the sample had consulted their general practitioners a mean of 7.0 times ( range 4–15 ) . |
| 10 | A further abnormal discharge , of 10 times the normal weekly level of radioactive iodine-29 , occurred on the day officials from the Inspectorate of Pollution and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate arrived to investigate the earlier leak . |
| 11 | As our diagram shows , a theoretical change with height can amount to an increase of six times from ground level to 60 metres or 200ft , or more realistically by 50% from the gust-free level of 10m to 60m . |
| 12 | He was allowed to drive the drill backwards and forwards for a couple of dozen times . |
| 13 | No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it |
| 14 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 15 | To get on to the housing ladder , the first-time buyer has to find a deposit of 5% or more of the property price , and with a typical housing price/income ratio of three times , this can represent 15% or more of annual income . |
| 16 | How can the Institute justify charging its members in excess of three times the cost of comparable courses ? |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't mind more work , ’ Anna said , ‘ but I have to confess that my heart does rather quail and fail at the thought of three times as much French jacquard-weaving machinery specifications to translate as I have already . ’ |
| 18 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 19 | However , the loss of family credit and housing benefit ensures that some poor working families face a marginal tax rate of three times this level . |
| 20 | This may be illustrated by considering the position of a man on average wages whose wife does n't earn , who has two children under 11 , and who takes out a mortgage of three times annual income . |
| 21 | In the USA public spending on medical benefits ( ignoring tax relief ) is around 470 per person per year and private spending about 640 , giving a total of three times the UK figure . |
| 22 | Portman also has a maximum of three times first income , but pegs its second income multiplier to 1.25 times . |
| 23 | This heading is quite extravagant on fabric and needs fullness of three times the track length for true box pleats which butt up against each other . |
| 24 | Similarly the deck can be shuffled and re-dealt a maximum of three times . |
| 25 | However , such a probability may change against any of three time scales : |
| 26 | The accruals method has been in development for over three years , and was triggered by the takeover of Pearl by AMP on a price/ earnings ratio of 9.6 times earnings calculated under an embedded value method . |
| 27 | Attempt each exercise a minimum of 4 times to begin with . |
| 28 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 29 | What you should bear in mind of course , is that in the space of a month I probably look at this a couple of thousand times . |
| 30 | The other is the Z o , which is predicted to have a mass in the region of 95 times that of the proton . |