Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | It spits out four times the amount she asks for . |
| 2 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 3 | Has charm , but worries too much — the sort of person who locks the back door and then goes back three times to check . |
| 4 | It pays out three times as much as if I check out overseas . ’ |
| 5 | comes up three times . |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson in Canada is currently making sanitary towels out of the stuff ( peat moss soaks up 12 times its own weight of liquid ) . |