Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She was very unfashionable at one time but I remember reading and enjoying her books .
3 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 .
4 Mars bars , a rip-off at three times the UK price , taken at regular intervals , got us there .
5 and then she used be spotless at one time !
6 Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on .
7 The former measurement is in terms of a value equal to twenty times the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the root-means square pressure of a sound to the reference pressure , which is normally taken to be two times ten to the minus five newtons per square metre , and the unit of measurement is on a uniform scale based upon ten times the logarithm to the base ten
8 Sberbank has asked the government to give each depositor cash equal to three times his deposit on January 1st 1992 , as well as a ten-year bond worth 21 times his average deposit in 1992 .
9 It was not thought too good at one time , so I was sent to Slough General Hospital for an X-Ray .
10 Peru too , looked good at one time and should have led UK publishers into the Andean Pact countries , but in fact the shining path has led elsewhere .
11 One therefore has the dichotomy of examining what is reasonable at one time ( ie the start of the contract ) , whilst also examining the ultimate purpose of the restraint at another ( ie the end of the contractual period ) .
12 It was pretty rough at one time , but whatever it 's like now it will be better , surely , than some posh hotel . ’
13 I thought I had sufficiently mastered the vernacular to be idiot-proof until one time in the Smoky Mountains resort of Gatlinburg , Tennessee .
14 Speaking of metronome markings , it 's 40 to the crotchet , and it 's usually taken as 40 to the dotted minim , in short about three times faster , because no one believes the music 's supposed to go so slow .
15 Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use .
16 Taiwanese company DTK Computer Inc says it has a Tsunami-based Sun Microsystems Inc workstation compatible with three times the graphics performance of the Sun Microsystems Inc Classic .
17 DTK Computer Inc says it has a Tsunami-based Sun Microsystems Inc workstation compatible with three times the graphics performance of the Sun Classic .
18 The rest were available at one time or another .
19 Any three of six filter blocks can be mounted simultaneously , increasing the changeover speed and the choice of excitations available at one time .
20 I remember being shocked at one time when I heard one of my predecessors say that his objective as chairman was to retain our position as a private company operating on a world basis in the chemical sector .
21 Was that big at one time ?
22 Was a micro chip like really big at one time ?
23 The carrying of the riding mechanic , which was vital at one time , was dropped in 1925 because of its danger .
24 All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from .
25 If they made a profit margin of 15 per cent to 20 per cent then the the value of the deal , which includes the rights to Merck 's Elavil anti-depressant , is equivalent to 18 times pre-tax profits .
26 The chemists believed it would be possible at room temperatures because the electrolysis forced the hydrogen and deuterium in the palladium creating conditions that Fleischmann and Pons regarded as equivalent to 1027 times atmospheric pressure .
27 The price is equivalent to 10 times the asset value and 20 times Martindale-Hubbell 's last year earnings of nearly $15million .
28 He came pretty close at one time .
29 It is possible for more than one social role to be relevant at one time .
30 Now there is another , another part it 's very nice and that is round Lane and er Road and all round there used to be very nice at one time .
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