Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | KODAK is soon to start selling 35 mm colour film which is 10 times faster than Kodacolor II , and can thus take pictures with one-tenth the light . |
| 2 | Will he confirm that last year the Scottish Office spent £2.6 million on advertising alone , which is 10 times the figure for 1979 ? |
| 3 | Beyond all the rarefied discussion of these fundamental forces , beyond the political point scoring and the political footballs , many of which have been kicked around this evening , there remains the overwhelming problem of coping humanely and fairly with the constant flow of individual human beings — now 50,000 a year , which is 10 times more than three years ago . |
| 4 | As these projects are mutually exclusive only one can be chosen , and therefore Project B is the preferred option as it has a positive NPV of £12,430 , which is 14 times greater than the return earned by Project A. |
| 5 | Horses kept in isolation , often the fate of colts after weaning , frequently display the inappropriate behaviour and high anxiety which is demonstrated time and time again in laboratory animals reared in impoverished environments with reduced mental and sensory stimulation . |
| 6 | ‘ A thousand pounds , which is four times their value and I had an advertisement in all the golfing magazines . ’ |
| 7 | In this case , Rosat observations suggest that the ratio of baryon mass to total mass within 3 megaparsecs is about 25 per cent , which is five times as large as the cosmological ratio in the standard model . |
| 8 | The bovine gall bladder model has been studied in our laboratory and we have shown that there are striking similarities in the composition of bovine and human bile apart from cholesterol concentration , which is five times less in cattle compared with human bile ( unpublished data ) . |
| 9 | Rather , it is the share of temporary workers who work via and are paid by an agency which is many times higher than average . |
| 10 | When the winding is to be excited both transistors ( are switched on , so the voltage applied to the phase winding is equal to the sun , of the two supply voltages ( VL + VH ) , the diode D2 being reverse-biased by VH.There is no series resistance to limit the current , which therefore starts to rise towards a value which is many times the rated winding current . |
| 11 | A squared which is two times two equals four . |
| 12 | The outermost skin layer of the bottlenose dolphin is replaced every 2 hours , which is nine times the rate of human skin renewal . |
| 13 | A joint venture between Brazil and Paraguay it began transmission late in 1984 and has the capacity to produce 12,600 MW with a flow of water through the 18 turbines which is 150 times that of the River Thames . |
| 14 | Which is ten times . |
| 15 | ‘ The result is that we now have a more sensitive version of the traditional pig-sticker , which is ten times more accurate than the old tool in testing and calculating the hardness or softness of clay . ’ |
| 16 | The current Royal Commission report indicates that this type of er , this likely to be on average twenty times the current legal limits within a year to two years we will be looking at receiving it which is ten times plant producing two hundred fold the legal limits dialysis . |
| 17 | 639 to ‘ this day ’ , that is , Adomnán 's time of writing , c . 700 , which is some time after the power of the northern Angles beyond the Forth had been shattered at Nechtanesmere in 685 , and the reference is rather to the failure of the kings of Scottish Dál Riata to regain control of Irish Dál Riata in Antrim . |
| 18 | The client will not necessarily understand , particularly a first-time buyer , that the deposit has to be paid on exchange of contracts , which is some time before the mortgage advance becomes available . |
| 19 | During a month-long survey , Lyme Regis passed the EC 's guideline for faecal coliforms which is 20 times tougher than the basic standard . |
| 20 | In Fig. 4.6(a) , for example , with one-phase-on excitation of a three.phase motor the crossover point occurs at a torque of 0.5 TPK , which is 0.6 times the pull-out torque with high inertia ( 0.83Tpx ) . |
| 21 | If the one about the little drummer boy under Richmond Castle has appeared once it has appeared 1000 times , which is 1000 times more than anybody has heard the strains of the drum from under the place . |
| 22 | Schröder estimates that the detection rate is 2.5% , which is 15 times the present incidence of 1.4 new cases/1000 men aged 60 to 74 in England and Wales . |
| 23 | The area between one arch and the base is 3π a ² , which is three times the area of the generating circle . |
| 24 | The new service will have 1,900 communication lines and will be able to support data transmission speeds up to 64Kbps , which is three times the existing capacity . |
| 25 | So it 's three times X which is three times four . |
| 26 | The internal diameter of these stents is 10 mm , which is three times the diameter of the largest plastic stents . |
| 27 | I mean I , I know you 're not doing any thing very active , well nobody is this time of year , but still , I 've got some nice ham |
| 28 | offices as well , but erm , and I know she 's half time and some offices have only got a quarter , but as I say , she 's the busiest person I know and , and she 's |
| 29 | She 's full time worker and er she 's a clerical typists , typist so |
| 30 | I do n't think she 's full time work , no |