Example sentences of "[adv] a hundred time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a hundred times twenty is twenty hundred , a hundred times seven will gives us what ? |
| 2 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 3 | I 've had that , and I can tell you it is always a hundred times better outside . |
| 4 | But he made himself walk to and fro a hundred times , slowly at first , then more briskly , to keep up some sense of health . |
| 5 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 6 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 7 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 8 | They had to write it out a hundred times to remember it . |
| 9 | No fresh cool wind had swept through the valley for days , and the same stagnant air had been breathed in and out a hundred times by the whole gasping village . |
| 10 | If we assume that the number of professional programmers , these are people who are competent to use and develop software , is roughly proportional to the number of commercial computers in operation , this means that if the trend continues , in ten years time , there will be a need for roughly a hundred times as many computer programmers than we 've got as present . |
| 11 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 12 | A few tree-living species can travel fifteen metres or so through the air , about a hundred times their body length , by becoming gliders . |
| 13 | You must make about a hundred times more than you need . |
| 14 | The seed planted in the good soil produced thirty , sixty and even a hundred times the original sowing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Erm put it over a hundred times the eight . |
| 19 | In McMurdo Sound , Antarctica , Tedrow and Ugolini ( 1966 ) and Tedrow ( 1977 ) estimated that shifts of 30–40°C occurred several times daily in the surface of rocks under summer sunshine , and Nichols and Ball ( 1964 ) found bare ahumic soils passing through the freeze-thaw cycle over a hundred times in the course of a summer . |
| 20 | Right , and just , just work out what seventeen per cent , just try seventeen over a hundred times four hundred , just to check , see what it comes to , you would n't normally check it . |