Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | That 's put them all off down at one time did n't they ? |
| 4 | Ghosts , fairies , dragons , giants , the devil and visitors from space have all been brought in at one time or another . |
| 5 | You can get two or three bugs in at one time if you 're lucky . |
| 6 | ‘ Having so many Subject Assessors in at one time did prove disruptive ! ’ admitted Depute Principal Roy Beavis . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Independent tests put the levels at up to 3,000 times the limit . |
| 10 | The arms are up to 7 times the disk diameter . |
| 11 | It takes just two minutes for a burglar to turn a home into a nightmare — in the city of Gloucester police are being called up to twelve times a day by families finding scenes like these . |
| 12 | In a separate publication1 , I feel that I have shown that the inter-reaction processes involved when two dominant forms of ion are present can cause one ion form to screen the geomagnetic field effective on the other form to bring about a resonance at a frequency of up to 1.5 times higher that that for a single ion . |
| 13 | They cost more to start with , but last up to eight times as long , and use only a quarter of the energy . |
| 14 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 15 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 16 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 17 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 18 | This is despite a tiny cellar which means deliveries are made up to five times a week . |
| 19 | According to studies by the Water Research Centre , PAHs leached from the insides of old London water mains are present at up to five times the EC limit of 0.2 ug/litre . |
| 20 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 21 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 22 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 23 | ‘ I telephoned the Blackpool office up to five times a day and never talked to the same person twice . |
| 24 | The Intel Math CoProcessor will accelerate the performance of more than four hundred of the most popular software packages by up to five times and virtually all PC 's already have a socket for one of these chips . |
| 25 | Forces that can be up to five times your body weight on each stride . |
| 26 | In Wordperfect 's estimation the resellers usually make up to five times the money from installation and integration as from the actual product sale . |
| 27 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 28 | Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products . |
| 29 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp will this week debut its second generation massively parallel system , the MP-2 , claiming it delivers up to five times the performance of its existing MP-1 . |
| 30 | It is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology , has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed . |