Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [adj] times " in BNC.

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1 In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial .
2 There was a ‘ Refuge Rota ’ pinned by the house telephone , with six different names filled in for different times in the week .
3 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 .
4 Some comparisons of the seasons can be included here and sunny or shady parts of the garden sorted out for various times of the day .
5 Its tail , so fine and thin that it was like a thread of silver , stretched out for ten times its circumference , terminating in a smaller , silvered sphere little thicker than the thread .
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