Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | or a hundred times , or kissed it |
| 2 | For any tiny Dart of the stratigraphical column of which we are particularly fond in Our own backyard , we can almost always find somewhere else in the world where that same division is a hundred or a thousand times thicker . |
| 3 | And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times . |
| 4 | Conversely , where the exothermicity of the association is small ( comparable to , or a few times kT , Figure 4B ) , then there is much residual motion in the associated state , and the adverse entropy of the association is only a fraction of the formal loss in entropy corresponding to the formation of a rigid complex . |
| 5 | It sounds crazy to say I had n't noticed it before , as we must have driven by ten or a dozen times , but you really do n't notice that much when you 're trying to keep your balance and play at the same time . |
| 6 | For example in the Meteorologica ( 339b27 ) he asserts : ‘ We must say that the same opinions have arisen among men in cycles , not once , twice , nor a few times , but infinitely often . ’ |
| 7 | Oh we did that a few times when the , the borders were closed with |
| 8 | Same as sex , you got ta try that a few times and then find out if you like it ! |
| 9 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 10 | The distance has been given as 4500 light-years , but may be as much as 7000 , in which case it must be more than a million times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 11 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
| 12 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 13 | Half of one ear was missing , and his nose had obviously been broken more than a few times . |
| 14 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 15 | Or more than a few times actually . |
| 16 | ‘ It is greener and cooler and a thousand times more beautiful and you will see it all for yourself one day , ’ he told her , gathering her into his arms and teasing her lips with his own . |
| 17 | Notes : much of the information for this section comes from the Channel Tunnel Special Report published by the Independent , 26 May 1989 and a Financial Times survey on The Future of Continental Transport Links , 9 May 1989 . |
| 18 | We need to get between ten and a hundred times lower ’ . |
| 19 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 20 | So would be the One Thousand and One Nights ; and a later times stories such as She by R. Haggard , and Lost Horizons by Hilton would come in the same category . |
| 21 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 22 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 23 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 24 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 25 | The offer of shares in the group , which was listed on the USM this week , has been two and a half times oversubscribed . |
| 26 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |
| 27 | This is not uncommon in the South East and well within the building society norm of two and a half times income . |
| 28 | And at Watercombe on 5 May the River Yealm was found to have two and a half times the permitted level of aluminium . |
| 29 | It reached staggering heights at Boston Park Square ( 1872–4 ) , Worcester , Massachusetts ( 1875–6 ) , Indianapolis Union ( 1886–9 ) , and supremely at Waterbury , Connecticut ( 1909 ) , perhaps the last example , where the campanile duplicated the height of the station building some two and a half times . |
| 30 | A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other … |