Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | this goes down each time until finally |
| 2 | Yeah well she she sleeps she goes down some time between eight thirty and eleven . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if the character ends up in chamber 81d you might allow him to find the ring of Verena since he has so much time to kill . |
| 4 | Mrs Cresson has already several times hinted that parliament may be dissolved if the conservative opposition tries to block government bills . |
| 5 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 6 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
| 7 | The world has about 3000 times as much groundwater as it has water in rivers and lakes , and groundwater is far cleaner . |
| 8 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 9 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
| 10 | Lochsong was a snip at the weights in last year 's Tote-Portland Handicap but no horse stands out this time . |
| 11 | Jean has n't much time — and I think I might do it quite well . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ After all , Master Taplow has n't much time left , he 's to die at two this afternoon . |
| 13 | Lennie knows he has n't any time to play with if Boro are to stay in the big time . |
| 14 | The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period . |
| 15 | ‘ Hardly anyone lives there full time . |
| 16 | KEF have long wanted to achieve the ideal of generating the entire musical spectrum from a single point in space ( two points for stereo of course ) , but unlike Tannoy who have gradually approached this goal over many years through continual refinements to their famous ‘ Dualconcentric ’ technique ( in which a more or less conventional tweeter is mounted behind the magnet assembly of the midrange driver , its output funnelled through a special wave-guide to join the midrange output at the neck of its cone ) KEF held back until modern magnetic materials became available ( specifically neodymium-iron-boron , which has around ten times the energy product of conventional ferrite ) which would permit a small magnet assembly to be located actually at the neck of a midrange cone — hence their nomenclature of coincident , as opposed to concentric . |
| 17 | Tests in Malaysia , the Philippines and India have found bacteria counts over 10 times the safety standard — a level that could lead to vaginal infections in some sanitary towels . |
| 18 | As Katharine is away at university , she has very little time to ride . |
| 19 | Is not the real answer that the Conservative party has very little time and even less concern for British workers ? |
| 20 | For example , Lawrence makes little use of pronouns , conjunctions , and auxiliaries ; and whereas the preposition of occurs twenty-nine times ( out of 397 words in all ) in the Conrad passage , it occurs only seven times ( out of 377 words ) in this one . |
| 21 | For each row the length of weaving yarn used is only the width of the knitting , whereas a knitted row uses approximately three times the width of the knitting . |
| 22 | The very word seven or seventh occurs twice seven times in the passage . |
| 23 | Mind you do n't forget it depends how many times you flush as soon as you put |
| 24 | Depends how much time I 've got . |
| 25 | It spits out four times the amount she asks for . |
| 26 | The USSR employs about five times as many farm workers as the US and invests about five times as much as does US farming annually , yet Soviet output is only 80 per cent that of the U S A. Again like any bureaucratic system of production , risk-taking is never rewarded and hence there is no premium put on innovation . |
| 27 | For example , the spring 1990 Labour Force Survey ( LFS ) , which enumerates women who would like a job and are available for work , includes almost three-and-a-half times as many women as the monthly claimant count and puts the figure of female unemployment at about I million higher than the claimant count . |
| 28 | Diesel fuel now costs over four times the price of coal , for energy produced , and all the indications are that the gap will widen . |
| 29 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 30 | Finn 's father turns up this time , takes him away , locks him up and beats him . |