Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 2 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
| 3 | Apparently at one time he was married to a young woman who was jealous of another woman . |
| 4 | ‘ She was n't frightened of flying , but she was very frightened of the seat belt , so I think she 'd been tied down at one time . |
| 5 | That 's put them all off down at one time did n't they ? |
| 6 | so at one time the theory is we our , we did have a tail |
| 7 | So at one time , it was worth one million pounds ? |
| 8 | Ghosts , fairies , dragons , giants , the devil and visitors from space have all been brought in at one time or another . |
| 9 | You can get two or three bugs in at one time if you 're lucky . |
| 10 | ‘ Having so many Subject Assessors in at one time did prove disruptive ! ’ admitted Depute Principal Roy Beavis . |
| 11 | In all , we had about 15 players travelling in teams together throughout 1991 … 7 , 8 or 9 together at one time . |
| 12 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 13 | You , you ca n't have a transport football team because you ca n't get enough of us together at one time cos they 're working you see , when people want to go to and from work but er |
| 14 | ‘ Compute performance is increasing by 1.7 times every year , while bus bandwidth is going up only by 1.3 times . |
| 15 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | Behind them the dominions of Russia marched eastward through eleven time zones to the borders of China . |
| 17 | The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office . |
| 18 | On hotel bills , they do n't , but usually they put it , including local tax , or something like , they always use to show it separately at one time , it 's a percentage , but now , very often your bill just shows it as a , including local tax . |
| 19 | Most peers are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons ( see below , pp.76–80 ) and it was thus at one time the case that a promising political career could be cut short by the involuntary inheritance of a title . |
| 20 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 21 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 22 | It was this beautiful lady that blew her top in 1450 BC with four times the explosively destructive power of Krakatoa . |
| 23 | Once in nineteen times your opponent will get the first pair correct , so you will only win nine to one , but the main point is that , as soon as you begin your turn , you play faultlessly . |
| 24 | After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in . |
| 25 | In the Western world ( though not often in developing countries ) many public library users read recreationally at one time or another , and large numbers of people read in this way almost exclusively . |
| 26 | me to man , I 've been waiting about , nearly like three times |
| 27 | In the first experiment nasal mucus from the patient , with coryza , was shaken up with five times its volume of normal salt solution , and the mixture was centrifuged . |
| 28 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 29 | Independent tests put the levels at up to 3,000 times the limit . |
| 30 | The arms are up to 7 times the disk diameter . |