Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are one or two awards that not everyone would bust a gut to win , but IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products unit is proud to announce that the OS/2 2.0 operating system has been awarded the Computer Language Jolt Cola Award for Product Excellence : we 're advised that Jolt is the cola that has five times the sugar and twice the caffeine of regular cola — and the connection with computers ? |
| 2 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 3 | Dall has made a single lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times , but he considers the image too faint to be of practical use . |
| 4 | is the word that occurs four times at least in a nursery rhyme , there was a something man , who walked a something mile , he found a something sixpence upon a something style |
| 5 | A roc was a bird of stupendous size that appears several times in The Arabian Nights . |
| 6 | The skald Sighvat 's poem Austrfararvísur ( Eastern Travel Verses ) describes a journey to Sweden by its author on behalf of Olaf of Norway , and refers several times to a chieftain named Ragnvald , who appears once with " the wise Ulf " . |
| 7 | The Stanlow to Aberystwyth Wednesdays only 0100 ex Stanlow is the only freight west of Salop and keeps odd times some weeks . |
| 8 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
| 9 | The 2400XT handsaw features Sandvik 's revolutionary XT tooth geometry , and lasts 10 times larger than conventional resharpenable saws . |
| 10 | Sandplate is a ‘ sandpaper ’ made of steel , which lasts 100 times longer , and works five times faster than ordinary sandpaper . |
| 11 | Looking again at the case of the Belfast inner-city speakers whose network patterns were compared , it is evident that relative to a person who , for example , had changed jobs and houses several times , their networks were all closeknit . |
| 12 | This reaction is more endothermic ( H = +49 kcal/mol ) but gives three times as much hydrogen . |
| 13 | As happens many times throughout , and frequently in footnotes , one sentence of Boswell 's from the after-dinner conversation contains the seeds of a novel — even , potentially , a saga : . |