Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 2 | By the time ‘ Chronic Diseases ’ had been published , Hahnemann had decided that the remedy should be not only succussed but also diluted before repetition , and he formulated the fifty millesimal scale , in which we have both more succussion ( one hundred times instead of ten times ) and greater dilution ( fifty thousand times instead of a hundred times as in the centesimal scale ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Even if I am wrong and think of a dozen times , it is still dreadful that somebody so involved in the game is not out there watching the guys . |
| 4 | I know I have — Like a million times . |
| 5 | At some point in the future there many be another move , but there must be something like a five times price/performance advantage before people will move to another standard platform . |
| 6 | Yeah , erm when we went in there for a few times used to get headaches and that . |
| 7 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
| 8 | Go on Jo go , go on Jo , go and get your word in that we 've missed off a few times . |
| 9 | I said about a million times . |
| 10 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you come here , ’ mumbled Dottie , very close , ‘ to ask me fatuous questions the police have already been through a hundred times , or for other reasons ? ’ |
| 12 | The building is now worth a million times its original sale price ! |
| 13 | ‘ Now that it 's illegal , ’ he said , coughing , ‘ it 's worth a thousand times what it used to fetch . |
| 14 | Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it . |
| 15 | How would you have felt if someone with a hundred times your experience had tried to buy into one of your early ventures ? ’ |
| 16 | The Zosers rubbed shoulders with men with a hundred times their income . |
| 17 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 18 | So she 's split the twelve up into a two times six . |
| 19 | She had done this before a few times perhaps , but not that many times . |
| 20 | A dissenting voice came from a Financial Times reporter who had recently visited the northern town of Kompong Thom , briefly captured by the Khmers Rouges in mid-June [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 21 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 22 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 23 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 24 | Has everything to be drummed in a hundred times ? |
| 25 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 26 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 28 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 29 | Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ? |
| 30 | To prevent the ‘ feet ’ of wheelbarrows wearing away prematurely , reinforce them with a coathanger wire coiled tightly round a few times . |