Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] three times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of this Katherine gleaned dimly from the set of house rules she read through three times in a room distinguished only by orderly barrenness . |
| 2 | Frequency of liquid stool incontinence ranged from three times day to once a week ( mean 0.92 episodes/day ) . |
| 3 | it 's only last night , I did n't know if you could hear , it come on three times and they were nobody there ! |
| 4 | Whilst exports to the dollar area rose by three times in current terms between 1947 and 1951 , as a share of total exports the increase ( from 11.5 to 14.5 per cent ) was only marginal . |
| 5 | Not at all , I mean they can be done in three times . |
| 6 | He came in three times to sign books . |
| 7 | Count in three times table then |
| 8 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 9 | In 1885 France was in possession of a colonial empire which , in 25 years , had grown to three times its original size . |
| 10 | In the upper levels of the hills the occasional pools had grown to three times their normal size , and turned every bowl of rushy upland into marsh , where the army laboured perilously for every half-mile of painful progress . |
| 11 | In the past year , prices have risen by three times the rate of inflation , says National Utility Services , which advises industry on costs . |
| 12 | Then each boy raced each other round the tree , going round three times . |
| 13 | Bull reckons its systems integration business is growing at three times the market rate and claims to be the fourth largest systems integration business in Europe . |
| 14 | For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 16 | It rang about three times this morning before you got here |
| 17 | They 're coming in three times a week . |
| 18 | Leave until it rises to three times its initial volume , then cook in a preheated oven ( 220C/425F/Gas 7 ) for 30 mins . |
| 19 | Housing association output will soon be running at three times the level that it was in the 1970s . |
| 20 | Depression in the previous twelve months was experienced by three times more women who had experienced maternal loss or separation ( of at least one year ) in childhood than by women with no such childhood experiences . |
| 21 | Do n't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors ; before you know where you are it 'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory . |
| 22 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 23 | Carrington 's flight was put off three times , and when he did go it was in the belly of a Mosquito , lying on a blanket and wrapped in a heavy coat . |
| 24 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
| 25 | So it should come to three times one hundred and eighty . |
| 26 | They were now highlighted with Winsor & Newton 's acrylic gold , put on three times to be sure of a strongly reflective finish . |
| 27 | Under Section 226 contracts , this is expressed as three times pensionable earnings . |
| 28 | There is also provision for private litigation , whereby private parties can sue for three times the damages inflicted upon them by violations of the law . |
| 29 | The weights were derived from hospital bed utilization rates in each age-sex category ; if , for example , elderly women accounted for three times as many bed-days as middle-aged men , they counted three times as heavily in calculating the weighted population total . |
| 30 | There is one chap who comes in three times a day for his fix . ’ |