Example sentences of "[vb past] to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 2 | Levels of ClO climbed to five times their normal concentration between latitudes 40 and 60 degrees north between December 1988 and February 1989 . |
| 3 | A state of emergency was declared by Tehran 's Environmental Protection organisation as the density of carcinogenic hydrocarbons climbed to 66 times permissible levels , and those of nitrogen oxides to 23 times permissible levels . |
| 4 | After bodyguard work he turned to full time military journalism in 1985 ; and has been a frequent and major contributor to the French magazine RAIDS . |
| 5 | That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory . |
| 6 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 7 | She is as remote from me , as strange , as if she belonged to another time . |
| 8 | The Villa Arnaga is appropriately and massively theatrical : a traditional , asymmetrical Basque villa with pitched roof and balcony but inflated to several times the orthodox size for such buildings . |
| 9 | Even in relation to poorer types of land , MAFF agreed to 100 times more applications for development than it objected to . |
| 10 | By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received . |
| 11 | David O'Leary had another reason for the lack of flair : ‘ Once it went to extra time everyone was afraid to make a mistake . |
| 12 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
| 13 | Was n't she entitled to some time of her own after a busy week 's teaching and little free time on Saturday ? |