Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was ten times worse myself and got over it on my feet , ’ he said in casual dismissal , opening his raincoat and reaching inside for a cigarette . |
| 2 | I stood there , I could n't say anything , he made me furious , they made me furious and anyhow I was ten times more embarrassed than furious . |
| 3 | Here you are one time only twenty s twenty per cent savings on a single purchase of Debenhams own brand throughout the store erm Debenhams has bought to blah blah blah outstanding values da da da and to encourage to do your Christmas shopping at Debenhams we 'll making a special offer that you wo n't be able to resist until December the twenty fourth commencing on November you can get an amazing twenty per cent off at any Debenhams own bought range , that means you can shop throughout the store , visit every floor , buy all your gifts under one roof and save twenty per cent providing you do all your shopping in one go to get the benefit of the voucher because the voucher can only be used once from men 's , woman 's fashions , accessory , children 's clothes , furnishings , gifts simply present this voucher and attach simply present the voucher attach and receive the train fare discount , we hope you enjoy your shopping . |
| 4 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
| 5 | As a result in some parts of the country you 're three times more likely to be cautioned than in others . |
| 6 | She was five times French Champion , also the Canadian Champion and an English International from 1910–1928 , winning 29 out of 33 matches . |
| 7 | So we are 60 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to die from salmonella ! |
| 8 | Now I 'm quite happy to argue we 're twice as good as the Japanese , but I 'm not prepared to claim we 're four times as good , which is what these figures suggest . |
| 9 | Pregnant women who smoke marijuana also place their children at risk ; they are five times more likely to have deformed or underweight babies than the average . |
| 10 | And if they are from Yorkshire , they are five times less likely than most women to wear knickers underneath . |
| 11 | How does one decide whether company directors are functionally more important than their workers , and if they receive five times as much as workers , does this mean they are five times more important ? |
| 12 | ‘ They are ten times easier to deal with today than they were six months ago , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 13 | Molecule for molecule , they are 10,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide and it has been estimated that if production is not checked they will rival carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas in the twenty-first century . |
| 14 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 15 | They are three times more likely than older men to be living alone and only half as likely to have a spouse . |
| 16 | They 're three times thicker than most other wipes , and big enough to cover a whole grown-up hand . |
| 17 | Of the recent English titles issued , most ( 94% ) had been acquired by copyright deposit , but although the proportion of English titles which had been purchased was small ( 4% ) , in numerical terms they were three times as numerous as non-English purchases . |
| 18 | Which will come to , if we add them it 's six times nought point two . |
| 19 | ‘ We now know that a man whose father had prostate cancer is four times more likely to get it himself , and if his grandfather was also affected , it 's 11 times more likely . ’ |
| 20 | So it 's four times a day for ten days , it 's not Amoxil |
| 21 | ‘ It 's five times what Sun has ever sold as the most successful Unix vendor . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's five times what Sun has ever sold as the most successful Unix vendor . |
| 23 | So it 's eleven times that . |
| 24 | It 's , no it 's one times a |
| 25 | So it 's one times a hundred over four . |
| 26 | But sometimes they give you something like this and you say , Oh it 's one times Especially |
| 27 | It 's two times three . |
| 28 | So it 's two time . |
| 29 | Yes I 'll just try these erm solder up this service switch and er everything else seems alright , there 's no anywhere , mind you it 's nine times out of ten it 'll |
| 30 | Musically this album is n't a million miles from its predecessors , but lyrically it 's ten times more potent and selfassured . |