Example sentences of "[art] hundred times [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
2 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
3 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |
4 | Now you 'll want to look at your watch a hundred times a day . |
5 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
6 | It 'll be a hundred to the pow erm a hundred times a half of itself so fifty . |
7 | Pay alimony a hundred times the roll of both dice , return to lower class ! |
8 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
9 | ‘ A hundred times the diameter of the Earth , and you do n't call that huge ? ’ |
10 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
11 | The weight in kilograms is a hundred times the number of engines we 've got . |
12 | The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it . |
13 | Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it . |