Example sentences of "[num] time [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could wish it eight times as long , a great compendium like Burton 's Anatomy of Melancholy . |
| 2 | They cost more to start with , but last up to eight times as long , and use only a quarter of the energy . |
| 3 | The final report — almost eight times as long as the interim — was able to cover the same ground in more detail and also to extend the coverage to a wide range of ethnic minority groups . |
| 4 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 5 | Chief Superintendent Riding of Bolton said that one youth has been arrested 30 times so far this year for taking vehicles . |
| 6 | The radial shields are long and thin , about 3–4 times as long as broad , separated from one another and recessed into the disk . |
| 7 | The radial shields are 3–4 times as long as broad , extending to just over half the radius of the disk . |
| 8 | The arms are 3–4 times as long as the disk diameter . |
| 9 | When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air . |
| 10 | Financial employment rose by 41% in the 1980s , faster than in any English city except Bristol , and six times as fast as non-financial employment . |
| 11 | Fresh targets sprang up and Schellenberg fired six times very fast , again two holes in the heart area on three separate targets . |
| 12 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |
| 13 | We all know what that means — it will take 10 times as long . |
| 14 | I flew her three times straight off , and then returned her to the aviary . |
| 15 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 16 | Firstly , as shown by the present results and those of Villanova et al , gall stones recur two to three times more frequently in patients who originally had multiple stones than in those who , before dissolution treatment , had solitary stones . |
| 17 | Worker bees are three times more closely related to their full sisters than to their half sisters , so workers could enhance their fitness by raising a full sister as the new queen when the colony swarms . |
| 18 | Industrial prices by then had risen two to three times more quickly than agricultural ones . |
| 19 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 20 | Do n't more than three times all right thank you very much for your help there . |
| 21 | The little vole scratched his ear three times very quickly . |
| 22 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 23 | He could make a wall twice as big as Endill and three times as wide in under a minute . |
| 24 | Lysine 85 is protected almost three times as well as any other lysine in H5 . |
| 25 | And , Tim , you and I ought to have a we 're not actually going to have a formal session on self-study , but we have another we have a rather loosely structured session when we can bring up any other matters for erm basically that they 'll want to plan the video session rather carefully as well basically I think we want to follow in on yesterday 's meeting — we want to find out why we 're not selling more videos basically and use the whole of that session if necessary for exploring with the area managers why we 're not doing twice or three times as well as we are . |
| 26 | The weights were derived from hospital bed utilization rates in each age-sex category ; if , for example , elderly women accounted for three times as many bed-days as middle-aged men , they counted three times as heavily in calculating the weighted population total . |
| 27 | However , it drills three times as fast with only one third of the effort required with a normal percussion drill . |
| 28 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |
| 29 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 30 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |