Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst them were the rare white , or pink , variety unique to the Toraja , with china-blue eyes like a Siamese cat , and each worth twenty times more than an ordinary buffalo . |
| 2 | Erm how many twos in that well we can think of that as two times two over two times five . |
| 3 | So we could write this as four times ninety . |
| 4 | Breeze read this through three times , and then put out the light . |
| 5 | And picked us up and I went in there and I were yeah half past eleven time . |
| 6 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 7 | The new plans , which have yet to receive official blessing , would drop this to 1–6 times . |
| 8 | Approximately 10% of those infected become chronic carriers who can infect their families and patients , and have 12 to 300 times greater than normal risk of developing liver cancer . |
| 9 | There is also a very big difference in the offer arrival rate in the young and old segments of the market , with the under-25-year old men facing an offer rate of about 12 to 15 times that of men over 24 years of age . |
| 10 | In a rheumatoid arthritic 's inflamed knee there might be 50 cu.cm of inflamed joint capsule , consuming energy at 30 to 40 times the normal rate . |
| 11 | After more than 16 hours of auctioning , every one of the 1,000 lots had found buyers , with none being sold for less than low estimate and many soaring to 10 times estimate . |
| 12 | Among children with no detectable antibody at baseline , IPV was 2 to 14 times more likely than OPV to induce seroconversion ( type 1 , 80% vs 40% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] and 81% vs 14% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ; type 3 , 76% vs 22% at 6 months [ p < 0.001 ] , and 67% vs 5% at 9 months [ p < 0.001 ] ) . |
| 13 | As shown in table II , seronegative children who had received IPV were 2 to 14 times more likely to seroconvert than those who had received OPV ; seroconversion rates in the IPV group were from 67% to 100% , compared with only 5% to 53% in the OPV group ( p < 0.001 ) . |
| 14 | Drinking every day is least common in the North , where men are more likely to drink a moderate 2 to 3 times a week . |
| 15 | The transfection experiments using constructions encompassing oligonucleotides I or III and the HSV-tk promoter demonstrated a less pronounced increase in transcription ( 2 to 3 times ) compared with the effect of the same sequences when located in the context of the entire promoter ( quotient ΔX/Δ63 in Figure 1 ) . |
| 16 | Christie 's and Sotheby 's obviously reproduce only quality drawings , and these appear , on average , to be 2 to 2.6 times more expensive than non-reproduced ones . |
| 17 | The cohabitors are quite active sexually : 2 to 6 times a week is their norm . |
| 18 | He had been too lordly to do this at one time , preferring to give them as Christmas presents . |
| 19 | She was very unfashionable at one time but I remember reading and enjoying her books . |
| 20 | Er instead of buying ready-made er dresses I suppose which wer became er very popular at one time with the Indian girls and the Pakistani girls . |
| 21 | So in , parcel or parcels , going from one address to another at one time in one load that is a consignment . |
| 22 | In 1979 , they pointed out that what we have called suburbanization by addition had increased this by nine times since 1901 , whereas population had increased by only 25% . |
| 23 | Whether they read a highbrow paper at each of four time points : the mid-term , the pre-campaign week , the first and second fortnights of the campaign . |
| 24 | An intelligent controller can track the position of the pen and record its location either at a fixed rate ( such as 16 times per second ) or whenever the operator presses a button . |
| 25 | Build up slowly to a frequency of 20 muscle-pulls six to eight times a day . |
| 26 | Gold is pretty heavy , being six to eight times the , weight of the gravels , and it follows a certain line down the riverbed . |
| 27 | The largest of these will be able to lift six to seven times the maximum load that the space shuttle can carry . |
| 28 | Defence against medium high tides : A project is already underway to limit the damage to Venice itself , acting on the fact that a high water level of 80 cm. above mean Sea Level occurs on average fifty times per year , while a 100 cm. high ( almost half that of 1966 , when the water reached 194 cm ) occurs six to seven times . |
| 29 | Six to ten times |
| 30 | A recent study , published in The Lancet , found that premature babies were six to ten times more likely to get necrotising enterocolitis — the most common , serious gastro-intestinal disease seen in special-care units — if they had been fed formula milk in place of breast milk . |