Example sentences of "to [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couples ages 25 to 34 eight to eleven times a month . |
| 2 | Build up slowly to a frequency of 20 muscle-pulls six to eight times a day . |
| 3 | They cost more to start with , but last up to eight times as long , and use only a quarter of the energy . |
| 4 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 5 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 6 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 7 | Gold is pretty heavy , being six to eight times the , weight of the gravels , and it follows a certain line down the riverbed . |
| 8 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 9 | In a separate publication1 , I feel that I have shown that the inter-reaction processes involved when two dominant forms of ion are present can cause one ion form to screen the geomagnetic field effective on the other form to bring about a resonance at a frequency of up to 1.5 times higher that that for a single ion . |
| 10 | The earliest known glass mirrors date back to Greco-Roman times , and were found in the tombs at Arsinoe in Egypt . |
| 11 | The scientists of Idaho were designing a gold-lined stainless steel container that could hold a mixture of deuterium and tritium gases at up to 3000 times atmospheric pressure and at temperatures ranging from hundreds of degrees centigrade to freezing and below . |
| 12 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 13 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 14 | The concentration of tissue plasminogen activator , however , was 20 to 70 times greater than that of urokinase in both groups of patients and therefore urokinase probably contributes little to the overall fibrinolytic activity . |
| 15 | At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein . |
| 16 | Repeat up to 30 times . |
| 17 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 18 | Apple reportedly hopes to offer the machine at approximately Macintosh LC II prices , but it will deliver up to 30 times the LC II 's performance when running software written for the new RISC CPU 's native mode . |
| 19 | Heavy smokers have laryngeal cancer mortality risks 20 to 30 times greater than nonsmokers [ 2 ] . |
| 20 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 21 | Immunohistochemical studies have shown that the IgG cell fraction is increased up to 30 times , depending on the severity of the lesion . |
| 22 | The INDEX keyword may be repeated up to 30 times . |
| 23 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
| 24 | I knew that instead of returning — as I had hoped , a year ago — to easier times ahead , with the opera scheduled for transmission and further commissions being made on its back , more difficult times were ahead . |
| 25 | • time-of-day tariff perhaps with several different charge bands applying to different times of day . |
| 26 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 27 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 28 | Glanville Jones thinks that they may go back to pre-Roman times in many cases ; June Sheppard has shown that the estate at Marden in Herefordshire , which has Roman settlements , a Saxon palace site , and a ninth-century minster on the site of the initial burial of St Ethelbert , was almost certainly the estate attached to Sutton Walls , the pre-Roman hillfort in the area which was reoccupied in post-Roman times ( Fig. 77 ) . |
| 29 | The scare was caused by a report which showed that cavers were sometimes being exposed to levels of radiation , in the form of radon , up to 800 times the official safety limit in homes . |
| 30 | Those which cost up to 2 times the yardstick rugs . |