Example sentences of "a [num] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The A Series provides a 300 times performance growth path from the A7 to the A19 without software modification . |
| 2 | Lane 1 , Hind III digested λ DNA ( 0.2 µg ) ; lane 2 and 6 , Bam HI- Pst I digested pPYACRC5 DNA ( 0.5 ng ) , ( lane 6 corresponds to a 10 times shorter exposure to autoradiography ) ; lanes 3 to 5 , PstI digested DNA ( 1 µg ) from three unstable pPYACRC5 transformants . |
| 3 | When you 've botched a job a dozen times you do n't hang around waiting to try one more time , you abandon it . |
| 4 | ‘ A dozen times at least . |
| 5 | Shall we — ‘ But James had mentally worded his speech a dozen times and would not be forestalled . |
| 6 | ( ‘ Lonely ’ or ‘ loneliness ’ occurs a dozen times in his songs . |
| 7 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 8 | I must have seen De Mille 's Cleopatra a dozen times . |
| 9 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 10 | I wore it just about half a dozen times , during which the button came off and the lining split . |
| 11 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
| 12 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 13 | This happened about a dozen times . |
| 14 | I 've called over half a dozen times , Mellissa ! ’ |
| 15 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 16 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 17 | He broadcast his message to the US Embassy , repeating it a dozen times . |
| 18 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |
| 19 | Alas , we must all go along with the charade which will take months , cost millions and produce enough his balloon a dozen times . ' |
| 20 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 21 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |
| 22 | Or we cuffed them under their chin — and after about half a dozen times , they never stopped there again . |
| 23 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
| 24 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 25 | He would rather have parachuted out of an aircraft a dozen times with full equipment in the dead of night , than spend a night on a ship . |
| 26 | She was glancing through a newssheet that she had looked through already a dozen times and that in any case told nothing particularly interesting . |
| 27 | Tension in the hands and feet can be eased by alternately stretching and clenching fingers and toes half a dozen times . |
| 28 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |
| 29 | Reims suffered four sieges in sixty years , Épernay was pillaged half a dozen times and burnt twice . |
| 30 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |