Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [det] times [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Launch such shock-screens through the vapour many times a second , and you have an ideal swept-volume for displaying 3-D pictures . |
| 2 | Strategically sited wind-breaks reduce the impact of strong winds and provide more vulnerable plants with essential shelter for a distance many times the height of the wind-break . |
| 3 | These are massaged into the scalp several times a week . |
| 4 | The author can recall one development on the West Coast of Scotland , where tiles were stripped from the roofs several times a year , in spite of each time being nailed and clipped . |
| 5 | ‘ The idea is , if you get them all swimming — without Mr Foggerty and me , that is … if you take the job on , and take them to the baths several times a week — if you teach them to swim , we 'll give you a motor-bike . ’ |
| 6 | This was partly the result of sheer indecision : during the Abdication imbroglio of 1936 , for example , he admitted to an acquaintance that " he changed his mind on the subject several times a day " . |
| 7 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 8 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |