Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarke was later breathalysed and found to be three times over the legal limit for driving . |
| 2 | ‘ There never seemed to be any time , ’ she said defensively . |
| 3 | It uses the Iris GL 4.0 graphics library , claimed to be five times faster than Sun 's XGL library . |
| 4 | San Jose-based Chips & Technologies Inc has come out with a universal input-output controller with a parallel port to accelerate printing under Microsoft Corp Windows and other graphic user interfaces : called the 82C735 , the controller looks after the printing with Printgine , an enhanced bi-directional parallel port interface that can transfer data at a rate claimed to be 100 times faster than existing systems , sending up to 2M-bytes per second of data to printers , scanners , local area networks , tape back-up systems and other peripherals connected to a parallel port . |
| 5 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 6 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 7 | Last night , there he was again between the sections of The Greatest Story ( Signals , C4 ) , a kind of Michelin guide to the Hindu poem generally said to be 15 times as long as the Bible ; a fact I am not inclined to check . |
| 8 | The only thing that did n't work was the understanding that we had to be big time very quickly . |
| 9 | Well , flight had n't worked on the other two occasions , but , for the sake of her own sanity , this had to be third time lucky . |
| 10 | Early in October , with the exact date of the premiere not vet set , but intended to be some time between 25 November and 10 December , John wrote again to Hanns : ‘ Million sorries for not writing sooner , but I was waiting for ( a ) Thursday , the official scrutinization of my ballet to see if it definitely would go on , and ( b ) Friday , the first night of Miss Howes 's show . |