Example sentences of "time [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As PSR J0437–4715 is so close , however , it should be possible to detect a companion about 25 times less luminous than the limit on PSR B1855+09 . |
| 2 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 3 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | That is , they would each have to be about 450 times more accurate than a typical real-life secretary . |
| 5 | ‘ The result is that we now have a more sensitive version of the traditional pig-sticker , which is ten times more accurate than the old tool in testing and calculating the hardness or softness of clay . ’ |
| 6 | The embarrassing scenes he makes in New York 's suburban streets and supermarkets seem at times more real than the enormities of his nightmare past . |
| 7 | The most intensely radioactive is high-level waste — typically a thousand times more potent than the intermediate level . |
| 8 | Lind ( 1983 : 270 ) has pointed out that in his corpus the to infinitive is six times more frequent than the bare form with inanimates . |
| 9 | ( The Profitboss is ten times more effective than a union ) |
| 10 | Meanwhile in Brownsville , Texas , townsfolk anxiously await an invasion no amount of six-shooters can repel — the coming of a particularly nasty strain of killer bee , whose sting is nearly ten times more deadly than the ‘ common or garden ’ variety . |
| 11 | It was ten to twenty times more powerful than a candle , and thus encouraged the furniture into the room away from the fire , which had often served as supplementary lighting . |
| 12 | They spend most of their time creating explosive devices several times more powerful than the results of gourmet vegetarian weekends , and then become Young Conservatives . |
| 13 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 14 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 . |
| 15 | The satellite would cost an estimated £400 million ( US$600 million ) and would be between ten and 50 times more powerful than the two gamma-ray observatories now in orbit . |
| 16 | As a black hole got smaller and hotter , it would emit a larger and larger number of different species of particles and would produce an explosion perhaps 100,000 times more powerful than the one calculated on the quark hypothesis . |
| 17 | Perhaps as one remembers this , one could pause to think that we have weapons 1000 times more powerful than the ones which caused this destruction . |
| 18 | To become commercial , though , the magnets will have to be made at least two-three times more powerful and a good deal lighter than they are today . |
| 19 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 20 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 21 | The cattle thefts are five times more significant than the murder when offences are counted , but sixteen times as important when the number of offenders make up the crime rate . |
| 22 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 23 | A thirty-second verbal report is thirty times more valuable than a thirty-page written report |
| 24 | This is over 100 times more abundant than the fissile U235 which fuels conventional thermal reactors like the pressurized water reactor ( PWR ) . |
| 25 | The weak force is some thousand times weaker than the electromagnetic force , and 100 000 times more feeble than the strong nuclear force . |
| 26 | I mean , look , okay , look at these two bars of chocolate that you 've got , there re , looking at it they 're going to be a about the same price , you 're not going to find one ten times as dear as the other , are you ? |
| 27 | As is the norm in such projects , every job turned out twice as extensive and umpteen times as expensive as the most pessimistic estimates . |
| 28 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 29 | The average US company spent seven times as much and the Germans 14 times as much . |
| 30 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |