Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We estimate that the dissociation time for distamycin at 4°C ( <10 s ) must be at least 500 times faster than that of actinomycin under similar conditions . |
| 2 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 3 | The bristlecone pine 's life span is more than 70 times longer than ours . |
| 4 | We , in our turn , live 70 times longer than the smallest mammal , the shrew , and 1200 times longer than a fly . |
| 5 | This tough torch focuses to a beam 70 times brighter than standard . |
| 6 | Just one reason why the mortality rate for under-fours is eight times higher than our own . |
| 7 | A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization . |
| 8 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 9 | The new machine produces ‘ cards ’ approximately eight times faster than previously , considerably increasing the flexibility of carpet design and the production of specially made , one-off , carpets for individual customers . |
| 10 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 11 | Well she saw six with me right , that 's eight times more than any of the rest of them have seen so I mean that 's er |
| 12 | In the end , Yorkshire could feel delighted at outplaying Somerset , who had refused skipper Martyn Moxon 's offer of a run chase at the start of a final day which began 75 minutes late because of a wet ground . |
| 13 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 14 | John Morrissey put the home team ahead after eight minutes from a Kenny Irons pass and John Aldridge made it 2-0 eight minutes later after Irons rattled the bar . |
| 15 | It was some eight minutes later before the ‘ phone in Sister 's office was used . |
| 16 | And the visitors took the lead eight minutes later when Durie surged through the home cover to beat Stejskal with an angled shot . |
| 17 | The court heard that Henry was arrested eight months later when police stopped a car he was in at Ballyduff Road , Newtownabbey . |
| 18 | NCP leases the car park above Presto in East Street , Darlington , from the local authority which recommended the upper deck be closed eight months ago after crash barriers were discovered to be unsafe . |
| 19 | Multi-party talks at Codesa ( the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ) broke down eight months ago when the ANC walked out after the massacre of more than 40 of its sympathisers in Boipatong township by followers of the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 20 | So while Mala was attending to Posi as they plotted our course to Fraxilly through the primary and secondary Netlines — a bit complex , since we 'd be shifting through eight sectors even if we took the direct route — I took charge of the cylinder . |
| 21 | And 32 months longer than the board hopes to take . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 25 | They extended their lead 12 minutes later when McPherson 's back pass let in Thornley , who rode Glass 's crude challenge before slipping the ball to Beckham , who scored with a spectacular shot from 20 yards . |
| 26 | But he withdrew his own nomination less than 12 hours later when his involvement with Maze escaper James Clarke became public . |
| 27 | 30 times slower than Mansell . |
| 28 | The JetDirect interfaces can accept data at around 350Kbps — about 30 times faster than standard parallel interfaces , according to Hewlett . |
| 29 | For example , the smallest mammal , the shrew , lives its life about 30 times faster than the elephant . |
| 30 | Our nearest well was some 30 minutes away so that was an hour walking in all . |