Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adoral shields are about 2–3 times as long as broad , wing-like , nor separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 2 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 3 | Amphilepis ingolfiana The arms are about 5–6 times the disk diameter in length . |
| 4 | The arms are about 3–5 times the disk diameter , and high slightly compressed laterally . |
| 5 | The radial shields are about 1.5–2 times as long as broad , separated for their whole length . |
| 6 | If you 're in two time or four time which you are . |
| 7 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 8 | Mr Bland said that if LWT manages to retain its franchise , the new shares will be worth three times as much as they are now . |
| 9 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 10 | A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently . |
| 11 | At 212½ p , down 111 2 p yesterday , the shares are on five times earnings assuming pre-tax profits of £43m this year . |
| 12 | At 160p , down 7p , H&C 's shares are on 9.4 times prospective earnings and have strong support from the dividend . |
| 13 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 14 | I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district . |
| 15 | The case is made slightly untoward by the fact that both Mrs Cons-Boutboul and her former son-in-law were at one time barristers . |
| 16 | There were at one time a number of city-states , each with its own god . |
| 17 | One of the major functions of education must be to open people 's eyes to the fact that things were at one time different ; that they have evolved to where they are now ; and that they need not necessarily always remain as they are . |
| 18 | It seems that relations between the two men were at one time good , as on his tour of northern Italy in 1851 , Scott saw Ruskin in Venice , whom he had met previously , ‘ and spent a most delightful evening with him ’ . |
| 19 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 20 | The texts in which Judas Thomas appears as Jesus 's twin were at one time widely used by Christian congregations , not only in Egypt and Syria , but also , as we shall see , as far away as Spain and , it seems , Ireland . |
| 21 | They resent the " off-comed-un " , the " bloody potoiler " , the " bloody hiker " , forgetting that no matter how far back their own roots go , they or their ancestors were at one time " foreigners " too . |
| 22 | These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both . |
| 23 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 24 | ‘ We were at one time , ’ said Doctor Lanyon . |
| 25 | Securicor were at one time synonymous with quality for they have paid to be synonymous with quality . |
| 26 | There were at one time , as the hon. Member for Ilford , South said , rumours that the TA could be cut to almost 55,000 or 50,000 . |
| 27 | The terms ‘ thesis ’ and ‘ dissertation ’ were at one time rather interchangeable , but now in the UK , the term ‘ thesis ’ is generally restricted to doctorate work , whereas master 's degree candidates write a ‘ dissertation ’ . |
| 28 | The more that public administration is called upon to solve problems that were at one time left to the market , the greater the contradiction — a point made by Habermas ( 1976 ) and Offe ( 1975 ) . |
| 29 | er , In spite of the fact that the Germanies were at one time united , it , it 's almost a culture shock I suppose . |
| 30 | ‘ The bowels are at one time constipated , at another lax , in the same person … |