Example sentences of "[adj] time [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 2 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 3 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 4 | The windows covering the detectors had to withstand decelerations of over 500 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth . |
| 5 | Across the Atlantic , the Boston Herald described the price of $95 million — 1.8 times the book value on 31 January — as ‘ a little expensive but worthwhile to Citizens . ’ |
| 6 | In more normal times the Government may exert pressure behind the scenes through the operation of the " D " notice committee . |
| 7 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 8 | Couples ages 25 to 34 eight to eleven times a month . |
| 9 | In stable times the constitution " worked " . |
| 10 | Try to do each one eight times every day . |
| 11 | Build up slowly to a frequency of 20 muscle-pulls six to eight times a day . |
| 12 | It flies eight times a day from Gondar , carrying 1.8 tonnes of grain every trip . |
| 13 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 14 | I cross the crossing eight times a day with my own two children and I would underline how hazardous it is . |
| 15 | IMANAGE to do it about eight times a year . |
| 16 | As with any technique , direct mail has basic principles which must be obeyed if the programme is to communicate and raise money over a long period : * It must be regular ( a minimum of eight times a year ) * It must be personal , relevant and informal * It must be good quality * It must ask for and offer something * It must appeal to emotion first and reason second |
| 17 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 18 | But how many of those blokes carrying signs outside Black Comedy can take the falls I do eight times a week ? |
| 19 | He told Pat , she remembers , ‘ I 'm not going to break my back eight times a week in the theatre . ’ |
| 20 | eight times a month or less . |
| 21 | The pilot results were promising and showed that the POI systems were used an average of eight times an hour . |
| 22 | The highest values have been recorded at Holme Moss in the Pennines ( 43kg/S/ha , eight times the level ) and at a site in Galloway with 31.4kg/S/ha . |
| 23 | The 50p increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , sparked a wave of protest and accusations of a ‘ tax on the sick ’ and ‘ rationing by stealth ’ . |
| 24 | The 13 per cent increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , has been roundly condemned by doctors , nurses , pharmacists and opposition MPs . |
| 25 | ‘ Draw ’ large circles eight times one way , and eight times the other . |
| 26 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 27 | For example , sexual differences in body size range from species , like worms of the genus Bonnellia , where females can be over 25 times the length of males ( Barnes , 1974 ) to species like the southern elephant seal , Mirounga leonina , where mature males average eight times the weight of females ( Bryden , 1969 ) . |
| 28 | In more recent historic times the area had links with Holland . |
| 29 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 30 | The total weight of fine sediment undergoing analysis is fifty times the sediment extracted in the initial ( 58 s ) sample . |